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Creator:

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad  Search this

Donor:

ConRail  Search this

Collector:

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering  Search this

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Work and Industry  Search this

Names:

Passaic Steel Company (Paterson, N.J.)  Search this

Extent:

22.3 Cubic feet (1 box, 59 map-folders)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photograph albums

Cyanotypes

Place:

Paterson (N.J.)

Hoboken (N.J.)

Date:

1878-1971

Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of: a 1903 book of photographs entitled "Illustrations Showing the Works of the Passaic Steel Company at Paterson, New Jersey"; photograph albums (including several cyanotype albums) of the port of Hoboken, the terminal and buildings and other structures; a "souvenir" photograph album of the Clarks Summit/Halstead cut-off, 1914, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers; reports from the 1950s and 1960s itemizing the precise costs of the elements of the Hoboken terminal; track maps; and approximately 10,000 oversized drawings, tracings and blueprints of structures built by the railroad.

Arrangement:

Collection divided into two series.

Series 1: Business Records

Series 2: Drawings

Historical:

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company was incorporated in Pennsylvania on April 7, 1832, as the Liggetts Gap Railroad Company. Its name was changed to the Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company on April 14, 1851, and to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (DL&W) Railroad Company on March 11, 1853, at which time it absorbed the Delaware & Cobbs Gap Railroad Company.

The first section of railroad, from Scranton to Great Bend, opened in October, 1851. The Southern Division of the railroad was opened between Scranton and the Delaware River on May 27, 1856, forming a more direct route to New York City in connection with the Warren Railroad and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The DL&W leased the Morris & Essex Railroad in 1868 and, after upgrading it to permit a heavy coal tonnage, secured its own line to New York Harbor. Other extensions carried the Lackawanna to Utica, Syracuse, Ithaca, and Oswego in central New York State and to Buffalo in the early 1880s. The DL&W had a particular advantage in that it was allowed to directly operate coal mines. The DL&W began mining on its own account in 1851, when a Coal Department was organized. The Lackawanna was exceptionally well placed to supply both New York City and New England via the Southern Division and also upstate New York, the Great Lakes, and Canada via the Northern Division.

The DL&W was still bound by its 1856 traffic contract with the Central of New Jersey, and on March 16, 1872, the two companies agreed to consolidate, being managed by a joint committee of directors from the two companies. However, the two companies were actually now competitors, with roughly parallel lines between Scranton and New York. The consolidation broke up after about a year over arguments as to which company would be the dominant partner. All connection between the two companies was severed in 1875.

During the long presidency of the conservative Samuel Sloan (1867-1899), the road became extremely prosperous as a coal hauler. Financial control was exercised by Moses Taylor and his National City Bank of New York, who had bought into the company at the time of the Panic of 1857. In March 1876 the DL&W converted from 6-foot gauge to standard gauge.

In 1880 Jay Gould acquired an interest in the company and promoted its extension to Buffalo (1882), giving it a significant share of the truck line business for the first time. However, Taylor and his successors refused Gould any further voice in the management. In 1890 William Rockefeller became a director, reflecting the alliance between the Standard Oil group and the National City Bank.

William H. Truesdale replaced Sloan as president and began a massive modernization of both the company's management and the physical plant. The company began issuing full annual reports for the first time since 1857. Two major line relocations were built to the highest engineering standards, across western New Jersey and between Scranton and Binghamton, to improve grades and clearances. They featured massive cuts and fills and huge viaducts, the Tunkhannock Viaduct, 240 feet high, being the largest concrete arch bridge in the world. The DL&W was a pioneer in the adoption of reinforced concrete construction for all types of structures. Under Truesdale's successor, John M. Davis, the principal New Jersey commuter services were electrified in the early 1930s.

After successful government prosecution of the other anthracite railroads for antitrust violations, the DL&W voluntarily divested itself of its Coal Dept., which became the Glen Alden Coal Company in 1921.

After World War II the DL&W hoped to merge with its principal western connection, the Nickle Plate, but was unsuccessful. After continuing losses from commuter service and heavy storm damage to its main lines in 1955, the company began to explore the possibility of consolidation with the roughly parallel Erie Railroad. The merger, forming the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company, took effect on October 17, 1960.

Source

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company records, Accession 1643, Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

Related Materials:

Materials at Other Organizations

Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company records, 1849-1960

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Coal Department photographs (Accession 1990.267), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department

The Enderlin Collection of Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Records, 1835-1956

The collection consists of material acquired by Enderlin during his career with the Lackawanna, primarily the kind of historical miscellany that flowed into the secretary's office. Two-thirds of the collection consists of newsclippings on labor matters (ca. 1900-1919), and the remainder of agreements, letters of resignation, statistics and rough minutes. John G. Enderlin was born on August 16, 1888. In 1903, he began work as an office boy in the New York City headquarters of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, rising through the ranks in the president's and secretary's offices to become secretary-treasurer in 1933. He retired at the end of 1956 and died on September 28, 1981.

Syracuse University Libraries

Lackawanna County Historical Society

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad was one of the largest and most prosperous anthracite mining and transporting companies in Pennsylvania.Their records consist of minutes of the DL&W and its two direct predecessors.

Provenance:

The oversized items were donated to the Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering by Consolidated Rail Corporation (ConRail) through William M. Wehner in 1987. Provenance for the rest of the collection is unknown.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Railroads -- Buildings and structures  Search this

Railroads  Search this

Railroad stations -- United States  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photograph albums -- 20th century

Cyanotypes

Citation:

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1074

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Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

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Artist:

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Names:

Benton, Elizabeth Cornell  Search this

Cornell, Robert  Search this

Extent:

196.8 Linear feet

186 Nitrate negatives

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Nitrate negatives

Photographs

Place:

New York, New York

Date:

1750-1980, bulk 1930-1972

Summary:

The Joseph Cornell Study Center collection measures 196.8 linear feet and dates from 1750 to 1980, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1972. Documenting the artistic career and personal life of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), the collection is primarily made up of two- and three-dimensional source material, the contents of the artists' studio, his record album collection, and his book collection and personal library. The collection also includes diaries and notes, financial and estate papers, exhibition materials, collected artifacts and ephemera, photographs, correspondence, and the papers of Robert Cornell (1910-1965) and Helen Storms Cornell (1882-1966), the artist's brother and mother.

Scope and Contents:

The Joseph Cornell Study Center collection measures 196.8 linear feet and dates from 1750 to 1980, with the bulk of the material dating from 1930 to 1972. Documenting the artistic career and personal life of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), the collection is primarily made up of two- and three-dimensional source material, the contents of the artists' studio, his record album collection, and his book collection and personal library. The collection also includes diaries and notes, financial and estate papers, exhibition materials, collected artifacts and ephemera, photographs, correspondence, and the papers of Robert Cornell (1910-1965) and Helen Storms Cornell (1882-1966), the artist's brother and mother.

Correspondence is with collectors, museums, galleries, artists, friends, family, charity organizations, admirers and those admired by Cornell, and World War II European pen pals. Discussions about the appreciation, donation, sale, purchase, and exhibition of Cornell's works are frequent, with the inclusion of shipping and loan documentation or notices of payment installments. Galleries and museums frequently request that Cornell agree to an exhibition, which he often declines, and fans request free works be mailed or affordable works be sold to them. With friends, artists, and those he admired, Cornell discussed topics that fascinate him, included bits of poetry or philosophical musings, sent clippings or a collaged letter, and occasionally discussed a project or work in process. After World War II, when so many were displaced by the war in Europe, Cornell answered ads for pen pals in the "Christian Science Monitor," often responding to requests for clothing or other goods, and sometimes exchanging many letters over several years. Family correspondence is with his mother, sisters, brother, and others, and often notes activities of the day, foods eaten, and general musings, as well as occasionally mentioning a project or artwork. Correspondents of note include Stan Brakhage, Betty Freeman, Charles Henri Ford, Allegra Kent, Yayoi Kusama, Roberto Matta, Marianne Moore, Octavio Paz, Sonia Sekula, Pavel Tchelitchew, Parker Tyler, Dorothea Tanning, and Betsy von Furstenberg, among others.

Cornell was often preoccupied with his thoughts, feelings, memories, a project or thematic "exploration," and jotted notes on seemingly any surface available. Notes and musings are on napkins, the backs of envelopes, newspaper clippings, and paper bags from record and magazine stores. Frequently, an observation would trigger a lengthy nostalgic moment, or a "feé," fairy-like child or girl, would capture his imagination and lead him to thoughts of 18th-century ballerinas and silent film stars. Cornell wrote longer diary notes, sometimes expanding on an earlier notation or emotion, and often wrote when he experienced trouble sleeping or woke early. Drafted letters to imaginary muses or admired individuals are interspersed among diaries, often revealing Cornell's yearnings to find emotional intimacy and human connection. Over time, Cornell revisited his notes and occasionally made further notations about renewed thoughts on a topic, dating the note with "revisited" or "reviewed." Notes are often written in a stream-of-consciousness style, for example, jumping from the mention of a record album or composer, to a ballerina of the same period, a note about a French poet, the memory of childhood, or an observation made earlier in the day, all in the space of a few lines. Notes about artistic processes or meanings behind works or images do occasionally emerge from the tangled, poetic notations. Notes also often provide insights into Cornell's internal emotional state and give clues about his intentions behind an artwork or a particular thematic fixation.

Financial materials document Cornell's professional and personal business activities, including the sale of artworks, annual expenses for supplies and household incidentals, payments and schedules for personal assistants, receipts for donations to charities and nonprofits, and tax documents. There is also information about who worked as assistants, or "helpers," in his later years and where Cornell purchased art supplies. Additionally, specific details are documented through receipts and invoices, such as what kind of paint he purchased. Estate records include preparations made for Cornell's artworks after his death, and clippings about other deceased artist's estates show that he thought often about such arrangements in his later years.

Exhibition files highlight several select solo exhibitions for Cornell, as well as preparations and planning for the "Robert Cornell: Memorial Exhibition" in honor of his brother in 1966. Also included are several early exhibition catalogs and announcements, including "Surréalisme" (January 9-29, 1932) and "Exhibition of Objects (Bibloquet) by Joseph Cornell" (December 6-31, 1939) at the Julien Levy Gallery, and "Romantic Museum: Portraits of Women, Constructions and Arrangements by Joseph Cornell" (December 1946) at the Hugo Gallery.

Film projects and collected film materials consist of files related to Cornell's various experimental film projects: "Aviary," "Cappuccino," "Centuries of June," "Fable for Fountains," "Nymphlight," "Serafina's Garden," and unrealized film scenario "Monsieur Phot." Files include film-making notes, correspondence, and photographs. Cornell's interest in film also led him to collect film-related materials, such as film stills, film posters, and screening programs. Scattered correspondence documents the interest other institutions and individuals had in purchasing and viewing his collection. Though most of his collected film stills and movie posters were donated to the Anthology Film Archives, film stills from "Escape Me Never" (1935) and "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) are still within the collection, as well as film-screening programs for Cornell's collection of films.

Writing and design projects document Cornell's work authoring articles and designing issues of specialty dance magazine "Dance Index," and his layouts for popular magazines like "Good Housekeeping," "House and Garden," and "Mademoiselle." Other writing projects include brochures dedicated to opera singers Maria Malibran and Giulia Grisi, "Maria" and "Bel Canto Pet." Materials used for these brochures, such as copper photo engraving plates, are also found. Design work includes a series of Christmas cards created with The Museum of Modern Art as well as traced patterns ("textile tracings") and design clippings from Cornell's time working as a "textile designer" for Traphagen Commercial Textile Studio.

Cornell acquired troves of source material from bookstalls, antique stores, sporting good and department stores, hardware stores, and magazine and record shops. He kept boxes and files of material on admired individuals, such as actresses, artists, dancers, and singers, as well as on art projects or thematic "explorations." Files are on general topics such as American history, scientific phenomena, animals, plants, and humankind, as well as on series of artworks, such as "Castles," "Homage to the Romantic Ballet," and "Medici Slot Machines." Focused "exploration" projects include "Celestial Theatre," "Colombier," "GC 44," and "Switzerland," among others. Materials include photographs, photostats, maps, book fragments, autographed letters, notes, collage clippings and cutouts, collected prints and engravings, box and collage fragments, and scattered artifacts.

Collected ephemera includes large amounts of blank postcards and greeting cards, stamps, collected bus and train tickets, food labels and packaging, decals, and other materials. Artifacts are three-dimensional collected objects and source objects, which include found objects from the streets, dried flowers, and pieces of nature gathered from walks around his neighborhood. Cornell may have gathered materials because they inspired a memory or nostalgic feeling, or because they fit with a bin of other similar objects to select from for an artwork in progress.

Photographs found within the collection are of Cornell at work and as a child with family. Also found are assorted personal and family photographs, photographs of Cornell's attic and garage storage, and photographs of his Utopia Parkway house. Photographs of artwork include few installation photographs, in addition to photographs of Cornell's boxes and collages. Collected photographic materials include vintage photographs, such as tintypes, a cyanotype, stereoscopic glass slides, albumen prints, cabinet cards, and cartes-de-visite. Cornell also collected cased photographs, such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and one opalotype. Negatives and photostats were often produced from various prints and even other photographs and used in Cornell's boxes and collages. Images are of men and women, actors, authors, dancers, performers, well-known men and women, royalty, places, and artwork. Photographs of note include those by Hans Namuth of Willem and Lisa de Kooning and of Edward Hopper's bedroom; photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson; a photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron; photographs by Brassai; and a photogravure by Alfred Stieglitz from "Camerawork."

Also found in the collection are works of art by others, including a sketch by Pavel Tchelitchew, as well as artwork by Cornell, such as unfinished collages, Rorschach drawings or ink blots, and childhood artwork. Printed material includes assorted bulletins, flyers, exhibition materials for other artists, journals, and sent printed membership and charity materials. Magazines, including "View," are also included, and often have annotations by Cornell or a note to "cut" or "review" with page numbers. A large amount of magazine and newspaper clippings are in the collection, sometimes collected with a group of like material by Cornell, and at other times simply gathered in heaps. Occasional annotations are also found on the clippings.

Cornell's personal library and book collection includes over 2500 titles, ranging from fiction, poetry, and cinema, to history, science, and travel. Notable among the titles are "Baedeker's" travel guides that Cornell often sourced for his "Hotel" box series, as well as an influential publication by Max Ernst, "La Femme 100 têtes," which includes a typed letter and exhibition flyer tucked within. Books often have annotations, some fairly extensive, by Cornell, and assorted collected items, notes, and correspondence tucked between pages. Pages were often cut by Cornell, either to make photostats and use in a box, or to file with other thematic "explorations." A wide range of authors and topics provide insight into Cornell's interests and to ideas behind artwork and diary notes. Cornell's collection of record albums includes over 145 records. These contain inserted notes and clippings and are often referenced in diary notes Cornell made, noting a recent album or song listened to while at work in his studio.

The papers of Cornell's mother, Helen Storms Cornell, and his brother, Robert Cornell, are also included in the collection. Both lived with Cornell his whole life, spending the most time with him at their home at 3708 Utopia Parkway. Financial materials document shared responsibilities for billing, utilities, household fixes and chores, and expenditures, and Helen kept detailed financial records in a series of ledgers. Robert notes when he borrowed money from Cornell, or when he means to pay Cornell back for the purchase of a typewriter. Activities documented in diaries also occasionally cross paths with Cornell, noting his visitors or an exchange of letters continued after introductions through Cornell. Personal activities, such as Robert's interest in his train collection and his drawing projects and cartoon series, are also documented.

Arrangement:

The Joseph Cornell Study Center Collection is arranged into 15 series:

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1917-1972 (Boxes 1, 98, OV118; 0.9 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1813, 1934-circa 1973 (Boxes 1-8, 86; 6.5 linear feet)

Series 3: Diaries and Notes, 1940-1976 (Boxes 8-10, 98-99, 135, OV108, OV119; 3.5 linear feet)

Series 4: Personal Business and Estate Records, 1950-1978 (Boxes 10-14; 4.1 linear feet)

Series 5: Exhibition Files, 1932-1973 (Box 14; 0.3 linear feet)

Series 6: Film Projects and Collected Film Materials, circa 1924-1972 (Boxes 14-16, 100, 133; 1.6 linear feet)

Series 7: Writing and Design Projects, circa 1910s, 1936-1962 (Boxes 16-18, 86, 100, 131-132, OV109-OV111, OV120-OV122; 3.6 linear feet)

Series 8: Source Material, 1750-circa 1911, 1926-1972 (Boxes 19-49, 86-92, 96, 100-105, 126-130, 132-137, OV112-OV115, OV125; 42.2 linear feet)

Series 9: Artifacts and Ephemera, 1768, circa 1839-1972 (Boxes 49-52; 3.2 linear feet)

Series 10: Photographic Material, circa 1800s-1972 (Boxes 52-56, 80-86, 93, 106, 128, 133, OV116, OV123-OV124; 7.5 linear feet)

Series 11: Artwork, circa 1810-1972 (Boxes 56-57, 107, OV117; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 12: Printed Material, 1855-1972 (Boxes 57-76, 94-96, 107; 16 linear feet)

Series 13: Book Collection and Personal Library, 1722-1980 (99.8 linear feet)

Series 14: Record Album Collection, circa 1925-1974 (3.2 linear feet)

Series 15: Cornell Family Papers, 1910-1980 (Boxes 77-79, 97, 107; 3.2 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a self-taught assemblage and collage artist, and filmmaker, active in New York City. He was born in Nyack, New York on December 24, 1903, and died of heart failure at his home in Queens, New York on December 29, 1972. The oldest of four children, he was born Joseph I. Cornell to his mother, Helen Storms Cornell (1882-1966), and his father, Joseph I. Cornell (1875-1917). Cornell had two younger sisters, Elizabeth ("Betty") Cornell Benton (1905-2000) and Helen ("Sissy") Cornell Jagger (1906-2001), as well as one brother, Robert Cornell (1910-1965), who had cerebral palsy.

Cornell attended the Phillips Academy, a preparatory boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, beginning shortly after his father's death in 1917. He attended for four years but did not receive a diploma, and soon began work as a textile salesman for the William Whitman Company in Manhattan. His work took him, by foot, through the city, visiting secondhand bookshops on Fourth Avenue, browsing music stores and magazine shops, and catching early shows at the Metropolitan Opera House. He would occasionally wait outside the stage doors for favorite singers and dancers to emerge, requesting signatures on photographs or bits of costumes.

Around 1926, Cornell joined the Christian Science Church, joined by his brother Robert shortly thereafter, and both continued to be lifelong members. Cornell kept a number of books in his personal library on Christian Science teachings and regularly subscribed to "The Christian Science Monitor."

After living in several rental houses in Bayside, New York, Cornell's mother purchased a house for the family in 1929 in Flushing, Queens. Cornell, along with his mother and brother, would live at 3708 Utopia Parkway, for the rest of their lives. His two sisters soon married and moved away, eventually settling in Westhampton, Long Island and in the poultry-farming business.

With no formal art training to speak of, Cornell's first work was a Max Ernst-inspired collage, "Untitled (Schooner)," created in 1931. He was especially inspired by Ernst's collage novel, "La Femme 100 têtes," published in 1929. French artist Odilon Redon was also among the few artists Cornell named as an influence on his art. His first sculptural works were small, cardboard pill boxes with bits of ephemera, costume adornments, and nature hidden inside. Cornell also created a series of glass bell jar works, placing small trinkets and Victorian-era-like compositions within. It was these early collages and bell jar works that were included in Cornell's debut exhibition, "Surréalisme" (January 9-29, 1932), a group show at the Julien Levy Gallery. Cornell designed the announcement for the show and exhibited alongside Max Ernst, Man Ray, Pierre Roy, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Atget, George Platt Lynes, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dalí. Months later, Cornell was invited to have his first solo show, "Objects by Joseph Cornell: Minutiae, Glass Bells, Shadow Boxes, Coups d'Oeil, Jouets Surréalistes" (November 26-December 30, 1932), also at the Julien Levy Gallery.

In 1932, after eleven years of work, Cornell was laid off from the William Whitman Company due to the Great Depression. Soon after, he took on more responsibility in the church, working part-time as an attendant in the Christian Science Reading Room in Great Neck, New York. Beginning in 1933, he taught Sunday school classes for three years and in 1935, became the Sunday school librarian. However, his religious activities and artistic ventures continued to remain separate.

In the early 1930s, Cornell progressed from movie lover to filmmaker. When Julien Levy began his New York Film Society in 1933, holding screenings of various experimental films in the gallery, Cornell began buying and collecting films and film stills in earnest. He set up a 16-millimeter projector in his home to screen favorites, such as those by Georges Méliès, D.W. Griffith, and Louis Feuillade. His collection quickly grew to over 2,500 film stills and several hundred films, and included silent era films, such as nature documentaries, goofy newsreels, travelogues, early cartoons, and slapstick comedies, as well as several feature films. In 1933, Cornell wrote a screenplay, or "scenario," entitled "Monsieur Phot." Between 1935 and 1937, Cornell also occasionally created publicity photomontages for Universal and Columbia studios. Of the nearly thirty films Cornell created, periods of activity can generally be separated into two areas: collage films of the late 1930s, consisting of combined elements from films in his own collection, and films he directed in the 1950s, which were collaborations with other filmmakers set in New York City. "Rose Hobart," Cornell's most celebrated collage film, was created and shown in the Julien Levy Gallery in 1936 and includes clipped footage from "East of Borneo." Later films were directed and filmed with cinematographers Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt, and Larry Jordan.

In 1934, Cornell began a job at the Traphagen Commercial Textile Studio as a "textile designer," a job he held for six years. Continuing to work at his kitchen table in the evenings, Cornell completed his first assemblage box construction, "Untitled (Soap Bubble Set)," in 1936. It was first exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art's show, "Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism" (December 9, 1936-January 17, 1937). This work was also the first to be acquired by a museum, purchased for $60.00 by the Wadsworth Atheneum in Massachusetts in 1938. Cornell's European debut was also in 1938, as one of three Americans represented in the "Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme" (January 17-Febuary 24, 1938) at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris, alongside Man Ray and Anne Clark.

At the end of 1939, Cornell began corresponding with poet Charles Henri Ford, founder of avant-garde magazine "View," Pavel Tchelitchew, and Parker Tyler. After his "Soap Bubble Sets," this period saw the development of Cornell's homages to singers and actresses, including "Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot for Carmen Miranda)," the destroyed "Garbo (Greta Garbo in the Legendary Film 'The Crystal Mask,' c. 1845)," and "Dressing Room for Gilles." He also began using photostats of art reproduction prints, as with the print of Jean Antoine-Watteau's painting, "Pierrot" (circa 1719), used in his "Gilles" box.

In the 1940s, the Romantic ballet emerged as Cornell's new topic of interest. Through his friend Pavel Tchelitchew, Cornell was introduced to the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet founders, Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine. Cornell collected dance memorabilia and had a great love of the Romantic ballet. His favorite dancers were primarily ballerinas of the nineteenth century, including Fanny Cerrito, Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Lucille Grahn, and Carlotta Grisi. Cornell's "Homage to the Romantic Ballet" works largely took the shape of jewel-box style wooden boxes with glass overlays and included bits of velvet, tulle, sequins, crystals, and chiffon, occasionally collected from dancers themselves. His most well-known work of this series is "Taglioni's Jewel Casket" (1940). Cornell also admired several living ballet dancers, including Tamara Toumanova, Zizi Jeanmaire, and Allegra Kent, who would all make their way into Cornell's box works and/or collages. Collecting for the "exploration," "Portrait of Ondine," Cornell's cased portfolio dedication to Fanny Cerrito and her role in the ballet "Ondine," began in the 1940s, though not completed until around 1960.

In late 1940, Cornell quit his job at Traphagen to concentrate on freelance commercial magazine design and editorial work during the day and his artwork at night. That same year, Charles Henri Ford started "View" magazine to promote Surrealists and Neo-Romantics in New York City and often asked Cornell to contribute. Published in the December 1941-January 1942 issue, one of his early contributions was a collage dedication to stage actress Hedy Lamarr: "Enchanted Wanderer: Excerpt from a Journey Album for Hedy Lamarr" (1941). Along with writing the accompanying text, he created a photomontage of Lamarr with her face overlaying the painted portrait of a Renaissance boy by Italian painter Giorgione. Peggy Guggenheim, at the advice of Marcel Duchamp, purchased multiple Cornell works prior to opening her new gallery, Art of This Century. Cornell also befriended Roberto Matta Echaurren, another Surrealist living in exile, who introduced him to Robert Motherwell.

After deciding to fully dedicate his time to his art in early 1940, he set up a studio in his basement. Complete with floor-to-ceiling wooden shelving, he kept his large collection of boxed source material stacked with handwritten labels in cardboard boxes. Themed folders of materials such as "Stamps" or "Maps" were kept in stacks and works in progress and finished works were stored in the basement, garage, and attic. Entering a renewed period of productivity, Cornell embarked on many new and important box projects in 1942. One of the first boxes created in his new basement studio, and the first of the "Penny Arcade" or "Medici Slot Machine" series, was "Medici Slot Machine" (1942), which includes a photostat of "Portrait of Marquess Massimiliano Stampa" (1557) by Sofonisba Anguissola. Another work from this time is the first of his "Castle" or "Palace" series, "Setting for a Fairy Tale" (1942), which uses a photostat of a French building from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's book, "Les Plus excellents bastiments de France" (1576). "Untitled (Pharmacy)" (circa 1942) was the first of his "Pharmacy" series and included twenty-two apothecary jars. Cornell tended to work in series and created thirteen "Palace" boxes between 1942 and 1951, and ultimately created six "Pharmacy" works.

In 1943, Cornell began working at an electronics company, the Allied Control Company, Inc., to do his part to contribute to the defense effort during the war. He also sent correspondence and care packages to displaced Europeans, who listed their needs in "The Christian Science Monitor." Influenced by World War II, one of his strongest works to emerge in 1943 was "Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery." Another notable work to come out of this period, "The Crystal Cage (Portrait of Berenice)," was an excerpt from one of his album "explorations" that was published in the January 1943 issue of "View."

Cornell left his job at Allied Control in 1944, but soon began working at the Garden Centre in Flushing, owned by a fellow Christian Scientist. Cornell was often nostalgic for this time in his life, devoting an entire "exploration" of material fondly remembered as "GC 44." He rode a bicycle to work and enjoyed collecting trips gathering dried grasses, driftwood, shells, and other relics of nature on the same bicycle as he rode through the streets of Queens. During this time, he continued to tend to his projects for "Dance Index," a magazine founded in 1942 by Lincoln Kirstein, but taken over by Donald Windham in 1944. Cornell designed several covers for the magazine and was given control of the entire summer 1944 issue, which he devoted to the Romantic ballet. He also devoted a special 1945 issue to Hans Christian Andersen, making great use of the New York Public Library Picture Collection.

Throughout the 1940s, Cornell continued to support himself with commercial design work for magazines like "Vogue," "Good Housekeeping," "Harper's Bazaar," "Town & Country," and "Mademoiselle." In 1946, after thirteen years at the Julien Levy Gallery, he joined the Hugo Gallery. In December 1946, Cornell's solo exhibition, "Romantic Museum at the Hugo Gallery: Portraits of Women by Joseph Cornell," celebrated his favorite movie stars, singers, and ballet dancers, and included his work created for the show, "Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall)." Cornell's "Greta Garbo" box, as well as "Souvenir for Singleton," an homage to Jennifer Jones and her role in the film "Love Letters," were also included in the show. In late 1948, his West Coast debut was in the exhibition, "Objects by Joseph Cornell," held at the Copley Gallery. The end of the 1940s saw the final issue of "View" magazine in 1947, the closure of the Julien Levy Gallery in April 1949, and Cornell's departure from the Hugo Gallery after his last show in November 1949.

In late 1949, Cornell joined the Charles Egan Gallery, known primarily for showing Abstract Expressionists. At this time, Cornell was working on a new series of boxes known as his "Aviary" works, most of which include a white-painted box with cutouts of birds mounted on wood. Though he had worked on bird-related boxes before, including an "Owl" series in the mid-1940s, his "Fortune Telling Parrot" (1939), and "Object 1941" (1941), these newer works were stripped of French elements and left "clean and abstract" by design. His first show at the Egan Gallery, "Aviary by Joseph Cornell" (December 7, 1949-January 7, 1950), included twenty-six "Aviary" works, nearly all created in 1949. Donald Windham agreed to write the foreword for the exhibition catalog, a single folded sheet, and Cornell gave him one of the boxes in the show, "Cockatoo: Keepsake Parakeet," in appreciation. Through the Egan Gallery, Cornell became friends with a new group of artists, including Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov, and Willem de Kooning. Cornell also held two screenings of a selection of his collected films at Subjects of the Artist, an art school founded by Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, David Hare, and William Baziotes.

In 1950, Cornell's second show at the Egan Gallery, "Night Songs and Other New Work" (December 1, 1950-January 13, 1951), introduced his new "Observatory" series. These works are largely defined by stark, whitewashed spaces with astronomical charts and constellations replacing colorful birds. The Museum of Modern Art purchased its first Cornell work from this show in early 1951, "Central Park Carrousel, in Memoriam" (1950).

For three months in 1951, Cornell was beset by various ailments and had trouble finding the energy to create new work. He worried more for his aging mother and the health of his brother. After a monthlong vacation with his sisters in Westhampton, he returned with renewed interest in Emily Dickinson's poetry. His whitewashed boxes took on a new form in his newest "Dovecote" series, using grids and circular cutouts. The works then transformed into homages to Dickinson, notably "Toward the Blue Peninsula: For Emily Dickinson" (circa 1953), and then to his "Hotel" series. Cornell's "Hotel" boxes include photostats of vintage European ads for hotels collected from vintage travel guides, especially "Baedeker's," adhered to the back walls of the boxes. Another new series of work, his "Juan Gris" series, was dedicated to Cubist artist Juan Gris. Between 1953 and the mid-1960s, Cornell created at least fifteen "Juan Gris" boxes, which often include a cutout of a white cockatoo in a Cubist-collage habitat. Cornell's third and last show at Egan Gallery, "Night Voyage" (February 10-March 28, 1953), included some of these newest works. After leaving Egan Gallery, his work was introduced to Chicago collectors in a solo show at the Frumkin Gallery, "Joseph Cornell: 10 Years of His Art" (April 10-May 7, 1953), which included nearly thirty pieces. Cornell's first museum retrospective was this same show held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (July 12-August 30, 1953).

As New York City continued to change, Cornell grew more nostalgic for the city he had explored since the 1920s. The impending closure of the Third Avenue El train prompted him to dream up a film project to capture its last days, resulting in "Gnir Rednow," a reworking of Stan Brakhage's 1955, "Wonder Ring." During this time, Cornell joined the Stable Gallery, run by Eleanor Ward, interacting often with Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Joan Mitchell, remaining there until the end of the 1950s. His astronomy-themed exhibition, "Winter Night Skies" (December 12, 1955-January 13, 1956), included his "Night Skies" series of work with celestial chart fragments, Greek mythological figures, and paint-splattered "windows" representative of star-filled night skies. In 1956, he became aware of ballerina Allegra Kent, and began a series of work devoted to her, the first of which was "Via Parmigianino (Villa Allegra)" (1956), which included a photostat of a painting by Parmigianino, "The Madonna of the Long Neck" (circa 1540). In late 1957, after two years, Cornell had his last show at Stable Gallery, "Joseph Cornell: Selected Works" (December 2-31, 1957), consisting of a series of "Sand Fountain" boxes and "Space Object" or "Celestial Navigation" works. The "Sand Fountain" boxes included different colors of sand meant to flow within, often from the tops into cordial glasses. His "Celestial Navigations" included galaxy-like compositions set within the boxes, with rolling, painted cork balls, metal rings, and constellation charts, sometimes hovering over cordial glasses or clay pipes. This last Stable Gallery show earned him his first published profile, written by Howard Griffin for the December 1957 issue of "Art News." Also in 1957, he won the Kohnstamm Prize for Construction at the Art Institute of Chicago's 62rd Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture.

Towards the end of the 1950s, Cornell spent less time creating new bodies of work, and focused more on revisiting previous series and reviewing piles of collected source material. In 1959, Cornell returned to making collages, frequently sourcing popular magazines. In December 1959, Cornell was awarded $1,500 for his "Orion" collage, entered in the Art Institute of Chicago's "63rd American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture." Also in December, he was offered a show at Bennington College in Vermont, which he titled, "Bonitas Solstitialis: Selected Works by Joseph Cornell and an exploration of the Colombier" (November 20-December 15, 1959). The show included one of his newest "explorations" of collected material related to "colombier," or pigeon houses.

By 1962, Cornell was working diligently on new collages, using Masonite boards and colorful magazine clippings. He also began creating collages using nude images interspersed with constellation clippings or hazy blue dyes. As in previous decades and art movements, Cornell became acquainted with new artists, spending less time in the city and more time hosting visitors at his Utopia Parkway home. Visitors included artists Walter De Maria, Robert Whitman, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana. Tony Curtis also became a frequent visitor and friend, introduced by Richard Feigen in 1964. The early 1960s was also the first time Cornell put out an advertisement for assistants in the "Long Island Star-Journal," employing a number of young men and women who helped organize clippings and run errands. Cornell also met Joyce Hunter, a young runaway waitress at a city coffee shop, who would occupy his thoughts and diary notes for the next several years. When she was murdered at the end of 1964, Cornell paid for her funeral. He went on to make several "Penny Arcade" collages in memoriam to her, including, "Penny Arcade (re-autumnal)" (1964).

In 1964, Cornell began friendships with several women including artist Carolee Schneeman, who was his first assistant in the early 1960s. He also met artist Yayoi Kusama through art dealer Gertrude Stein. After becoming friends, she visited him often and they exchanged letters and notes. As he did with other artist friends, Cornell supported her by purchasing several of her early watercolor paintings, and they stayed connected until his death in 1972.

Cornell's life greatly changed in 1965 with the death of his brother, Robert. By this time, his mother lived with his sister in Long Island, and Cornell was alone in the Utopia Parkway house for the first time. He exchanged frequent letters and phone calls with his mother and devoted much time to thinking about Robert and Joyce, often aligning them in his diary notations. Cornell also created a series of collages dedicated to his brother's memory, incorporating photostats of Robert's hundreds of drawings into Cornell's work, as with the later collage, "The Heart on the Sleeve" (1972). Cornell's "Time Transfixed" series of collages were also dedications to Robert's memory, referencing Magritte and Robert's love of trains. He mounted an exhibition, "Robert Cornell: Memorial Exhibition" (January 4-29, 1966), at the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, where he showed Robert's artwork alongside his newly created collage dedications.

After Robert's death, Cornell relied more heavily on assistants, going through many part-time "helpers." In October 1966, Cornell's mother died, adding her to his constant thoughts and diaries. Though he was still grieving, he was given two major retrospectives in 1967. The first was at the Pasadena Art Museum, put on by James Demetrion and Walter Hopps, "An Exhibiton of Works by Joseph Cornell" (January 9-February 11, 1967). The second retrospective was at the Guggenheim Museum just three months later, "Joseph Cornell" (May 4-June 35, 1967), organized by Diane Waldman. After these shows, he was highlighted in the December 15, 1967 issue of "Life" in the article, "The Enigmatic Bachelor of Utopia Parkway."

In 1968, Cornell was given an "award of merit," which included a medal and $1,000, by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He was also given a medal and $1,000 by the Brandeis University Creative Arts Awards in the painting category, along with an exhibition. Days later, "The New York Times" announced Cornell the winner, along with Donald Judd, of India's first Triennale of Contemporary World Art. The Brandeis exhibition, "Boxes and Collages by Joseph Cornell" (May 20-June 23, 1968), was organized by William Seitz and concentrated on Cornell's more recent 1960s collages. Cornell was also included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's hundredth anniversary show, "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940 to 1970" (October 18, 1969-February 1, 1970), where twenty-two of Cornell's boxes were shown in their own gallery. At the end of 1970, Cornell was given a solo show at the Metropolitan, "Collages by Joseph Cornell" (December 10, 1970-January 24, 1971), which included forty-five of his newest collages.

Now preferring to stay closer to his home in Flushing, Cornell was more interested in sharing his art with young adults and children, than an adult audience. He hosted a group of high school students, sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's education department, at his home in conjunction with his collage show (1970-1971). He also showed his work in the art department of Queens College of the City University of New York. Cornell still hosted visitors on occasion, having Yoko Ono and John Lennon at his home at least once. Leila Hadley, Betsy von Furstenberg, and Anne Jackson also made frequent visits. With his deteriorating health, Cornell worried about what would happen to his work after his death and hired lawyer Harry Torczyner to help him plan his estate and get his affairs in order.

In 1972, Cornell had a show at the Cooper Union, a college in New York, specifically for children. He displayed his boxes and collages at child-height and had cherry soda and brownies at the opening reception on February 10. He then held a show at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, also for children: "Children's Preview of the Exhibition of Joseph Cornell – Collages and Boxes (April 18-June 17, 1972). In the winter of 1972, at the request of the Phoenix House drug treatment and prevention program, Cornell contributed to a charity project compiling limited-edition lithographic prints for a portfolio, which included artists like David Hockney, James Rosenquist, and Ellsworth Kelly.

On December 29, 1972, a week after turning sixty-nine, Cornell died of heart failure at his home. He was cremated and interred near the graves of his mother, father, and brother, overlooking the Hudson River in Nyack, New York.

Works Cited:

1. Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe. "Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination." New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Exhibition Catalog.

2. McShine, Kynaston. "Joseph Cornell." New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980.

3. San Francisco Cinematheque and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Joseph Cornell: Films." 2007. Exhibition Program. (Presented in conjunction with SFMOMA's exhibition of "Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination").

4. Schaffner, Ingrid and Lisa Jacobs. "Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery." Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 1998.

5. Solomon, Deborah. "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell." New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

Separated Materials:

The Smithsonian Archives of American Art houses the Joseph Cornell papers, 1804-1986, bulk 1939-1972.

Provenance:

The Joseph Cornell Study Center collection was donated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by Joseph Cornell's sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth Cornell Benton and John A. Benton, in 1978, which prompted the creation of the Joseph Cornell Study Center. Additional materials were donated in installments by the artist's estate, the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, from 1985 to 1997. Elizabeth and John A. Benton originally donated 66 linear feet of three-dimensional and non-textual source material and 50 linear feet of books to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, which were subsequently transferred to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Joseph Cornell Study Center in 1994 and 1995.

Restrictions:

Access to the collection requires an advanced appointment. Contact collection staff at least two weeks prior to preferred date, at AmericanArtCornellStudy@si.edu.

Series 9: Artifacts and Ephemera, Series 13: Personal Library and Book Collection, and Series 14: Record Album Collection, are still undergoing processing and preservation and may not be available for research use. Record albums are unavailable for playback. Contact collection staff for full lists of publications and record albums.

Rights:

Unpublished materials are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Occupation:

Collagists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States  Search this

Assemblage (Art)  Search this

Assemblage artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Found objects (Art)  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Celebrities  Search this

Filmmakers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs -- 1900-1950 -- Photoprints -- Silver gelatin

Photographs -- 1860-1870 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver albumen -- Cartes-de-visite

Photographs -- Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1860

Citation:

Joseph Cornell Study Center collection, 1750-1980, bulk 1930-1972. Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was generously provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

Identifier:

SAAM.JCSC.1

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Joseph Cornell Study Center Collection

Archival Repository:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ih7d97fc249-474d-41bf-953d-5305df1e4c06

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-saam-jcsc-1

Creator:

Tichkematse, 1857-1932  Search this

Extent:

1 Volume (8.75 x 5.5 inches)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Volumes

Works of art

Ledger drawings

Photographs

Place:

Fort Supply (Okla.)

North America

Date:

1887 April

Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of a small notebook of ruled paper containing twenty-one drawings by Tichkematse, one (1) cyanotype photograph, and one (1) note. The notebook has been disbound and the covers retained. The drawings document an 1887 hunting excursion taken by Colonel Bliss of Fort Supply (in Indian Territory) and Major John Dunlop, a visitor to the fort from Washington D.C. Included in the collection are a cyanotype picture featuring Colonel Bliss, end papers, and covers of the book as well as a typescript note pasted to the inside cover describing the drawings. Many drawings are inscribed with names identifying the figures, most of whom are Cheyenne men who were enlisted as Army scouts.

Biographical Note:

Tichkematse, also known as Squint Eyes, (1857-1932) was among the men held prisoner at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, from 1875-1878. While imprisoned, he learned to speak English and to read and write. Upon release he attended school at the Hampton Institute in Virginia for about a year before coming to the Smithsonian. There he was trained in the preparation of bird and mammal specimens for study and display. During his time at the Smithsonian, he also produced drawings illustrating his old life on the Plains, full of buffalo hunts and battles as well as everyday camp life. In 1880 he returned to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation in what is now Oklahoma, but he continued his affiliation with the Smithsonian. He was active in collecting bird and mammal specimens as well as craft items acquired from Cheyenne friends and relatives, which he shipped to the museum.

Major John Dunlop was a supply sergeant in San Antonio before the Civil War. He then went to Mexico, and later to Washington. While in Washington he met Col. Bliss and the maintained a friendship over time, resulting in his visiting Bliss in Indian Territory and participating in the hunt depicted.

Historical Note:

Fort Supply, established in 1868, was initially designated as a supply camp where U.S. Cavalry troops could restock and refresh themselves. It was from this post that Custer and the Seventh Cavalry marched to the Battle of Washita. Over the next twenty-five years, soldiers from Fort Supply performed duties that included peace-keeping and monitoring of the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation and the Cherokee Outlet as well as monitoring the Land Run of 1893. From 1869 to early 1870, the post served as the temporary location for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Agency.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7500

Related Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives holds a photographic copy of the complete book of drawings in PhotoLot R79-24.

The National Anthropological Archives holds additional drawings by Tichkematse in MS 39-d-2 Drawings by Tichkematse and others and Tichkematse and Etahdleuh drawings (MS 290844).

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Works of art

Ledger drawings

Photographs

Citation:

MS 7500 Tichkematse book of drawings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7500

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MS 7500 Tichkematse book of drawings

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw352d9cc0d-bad6-4a6b-9166-aaba9d151072

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7500

Collection Creator:

Tichkematse, 1857-1932  Search this

Extent:

1 Photograph (cyanotype)

Container:

Box 2, Item 10

Type:

Archival materials

Graphic Materials

Photographs

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 21203302

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

MS 7500 Tichkematse book of drawings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 7500 Tichkematse book of drawings

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39b176262-a2a4-4ffb-acaf-0ec0c53d2cd1

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms7500-ref22

Series Creator:

Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969  Search this

Container:

Box 8, Folder 3

Type:

Archival materials

Graphic Materials

Date:

1933-1907

Scope and Contents:

One photo postcard postmarked Bridgewater Corners. One stereograph, plus one photocopy of a different stereograph (moved to Photo Reference Materials Series). Plate and printed illustrations and portraits, some caricatures. Two cyanotypes of construction of a porch for building on R.I. and Pacific Avenues (town unspecified). Lighthouse appears in one of the images.

Series Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

Series Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Series Citation:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lumber Trade and Industry, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lumber Industry and Trade

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Lumber Industry and Trade / Genre

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep89ef8b456-f31f-489d-acae-775d3f560900

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmah-ac-0060-s01-01-lumber-ref57

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Photographer:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this

Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917  Search this

Extent:

2 Prints (etching or engraving)

13 Prints (albumen)

230 Copy prints (circa)

1 Chromolithograph

179 Cyanotypes

200 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Sisitonwan Dakota (Sisseton Sioux)  Search this

Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)  Search this

Tewa Pueblos  Search this

Taos Indians  Search this

Wenatchi Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Tuscarora  Search this

Yanktonnai Nakota (Yankton Sioux)  Search this

Yakama (Yakima)  Search this

Iowa  Search this

Ponca  Search this

Dakota (Eastern Sioux)  Search this

Sauk  Search this

Akimel O'odham (Pima)  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Cayuga  Search this

Cherokee  Search this

Oneida  Search this

Choctaw  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Cochiti Pueblo  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Fox  Search this

Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)  Search this

Apache  Search this

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Jicarilla Apache  Search this

Klamath  Search this

Laguna Indians  Search this

Menominee (Menomini)  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)  Search this

Seneca  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Onondaga  Search this

Osage  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Pueblo  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Copy prints

Chromolithographs

Cyanotypes

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs mostly commissioned and collected by personnel in the Bureau of American Ethnology. Most of the photographs are studio portraits of Native Americans made by the Bureau of American Ethnology and Smithsonian Institution, possibly for physical anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka. There are also photographs made by Truman Michelson among the Catawba tribe, copies of illustrations and drawings, and various images of archeological sites and artifacts.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 87-2M, USNM ACC 42191

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Original negatives for many photographs in this collection held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Michelson photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 13, Photo Lot 24, MS 2139, and MS 4365-c.

Additional Hillers photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 83-18, Photo Lot 87-2N, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Jackson photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 93, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot R82-10, Photo Lot 87-2P, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-3, the records of the Department of Anthropology, and the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Smillie photographs held in the National Museum of American History Archives Center in the Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas W. Smillie Glass Plate Negatives and in Smithsonian Institution Archives SIA Acc. 05-123.

Additional Gardner photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 80-18, Photo Lot 87-2P, Photo Lot 90-1, and the BAE historical negatives.

Associated busts and molds held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 42191.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Catawba Indians  Search this

Citation:

Photo lot 87-2M, Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.87-2M

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw38ec3245f-6abd-4664-a65e-b51cdda340e6

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-87-2m

Creator:

Donoho, Gaines Ruger, 1857-1916  Search this

Subject:

Lalanne, Maxime  Search this

Appian, Adolphe  Search this

Type:

Prints

Sketches

Photographs

Citation:

Gaines Ruger Donoho papers, 1864-1915. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Printmakers  Search this

Theme:

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)5839

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)208679

AAA_collcode_donogain

Theme:

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_208679

Creator:

Stetson, Charles Walter, 1858-1911  Search this

Subject:

Knight, Edward B.  Search this

Stetson, Katharine Beecher  Search this

Chamberlin, F. Tolles (Frank Tolles)  Search this

Goodale, David  Search this

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins  Search this

Type:

Sketchbooks

Citation:

Charles Walter Stetson papers, 1879-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- United States  Search this

Artists' studios -- Photographs  Search this

Theme:

Diaries  Search this

Sketches & Sketchbooks  Search this

Lives of artists  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)8762

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)210944

AAA_collcode_stetchar

Theme:

Diaries

Sketches & Sketchbooks

Lives of artists

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_210944

Creator:

Robert Schoelkopf Gallery  Search this

Names:

Zabriskie Gallery  Search this

Andrejevic, Milet, 1925-1989  Search this

Aponovich, James, 1948-  Search this

Bailey, William, 1930-2020  Search this

Bell, Leland  Search this

Brassaï, 1899-  Search this

Cameron, Julia Margaret Pattle, 1815-1879  Search this

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-  Search this

Cornell, Joseph  Search this

Dawson, Manierre, 1887-1969  Search this

Driggs, Elsie, 1898-1992  Search this

Erlebacher, Martha Mayer  Search this

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975  Search this

Fiske, Gertrude, 1878-1961  Search this

Freund, Gisèle  Search this

Horton, William S., 1865-1936  Search this

Ito, Miyoko, 1918-1983  Search this

Lachaise, Gaston, 1882-1935  Search this

Laderman, Gabriel, 1929-  Search this

Ligare, David  Search this

Matthiasdottir, Louisa  Search this

Matulka, Jan, 1890-1972  Search this

Myers, Ethel  Search this

Nadelman, Elie, 1882-1946  Search this

Schoelkopf, Robert J., 1927-1991  Search this

Stella, Joseph, 1877-1946  Search this

Storrs, John Henry Bradley, 1885-1956  Search this

Wiesenfeld, Paul  Search this

Extent:

29 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gallery records

Illustrated letters

Photographs

Date:

1851-1991

bulk 1962-1991

Summary:

The collection comprises 29 linear feet of records that document the day-to-day administration of the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery from 1962 to 1991, with additional items predating the founding of the gallery from 1851 to 1961. The collection records artist and client relations, exhibitions, and daily business transactions through artist files, correspondence, printed matter, and photographic material.

Scope and Content Note:

The records of the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery comprise 29 linear feet of material from 1851 to 1991, with some items predating the founding of the gallery. The bulk of the records date from 1962 to 1991, providing researchers with fairly comprehensive coverage of the gallery's development and operations from its inception in 1962 until its closure in 1991. Items dated prior to 1962 relate principally to the period of transition during which Robert Schoelkopf ended his partnership with the Zabriskie Gallery and established his own business. There are also some items relating to artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The collection consists primarily of artist files documenting relations with contemporary artists, representation of deceased artists, and other works of art handled by the gallery. It also chronicles the gallery's exhibition schedule and the day-to-day administration of the business. The types of material that can be found here include correspondence, exhibition inventories, price lists, accounting and consignment records, shipping and insurance records, printed material, and photographs.

The collection is a valuable source of information on twentieth-century American art history, focusing primarily on early-twentieth-century modernists as well as an important group of American realist painters and sculptors from the latter half of the century. The collection illuminates, in detail, the developing market for these schools and, in the case of the latter group, provides personal insights from artists on the realist perspective.

The records also document the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery's significant contribution to the resurgence of interest in fine art photography during the 1960s and 1970s as reflected in an increase in the value of works by important American photographers such as Walker Evans.

Much of the outgoing correspondence from the gallery consists of copies of letters written by Robert Schoelkopf, with additional business being handled by assistant staff and, from the mid-1970s, Schoelkopf's wife, Laura Jane Schoelkopf. The records offer insight into the personalities of the Schoelkopfs and how their congenial and candid management style influenced their relationships with the contemporary artists they represented.

Arrangement:

Originally the collection was organized as one large file arranged alphabetically by folder title, with titles ranging from names of artists to general subject headings such as "Correspondence." During processing it became clear that the gallery delineated operations into three main functions: artist relations, client-dealer relations, and exhibitions. Consequently the collection is arranged as three main series based on these areas of concern. A small group of miscellaneous photographs of artists constitutes an additional series at the end of the collection.

Originally paper records throughout the collection were generally arranged chronologically, although this order was not strictly adhered to. Frequently, correspondence and memoranda were attached to related records going back several years. To preserve the relationship between such documents, records stapled together in this way have been left together. They are arranged in reverse chronological order and filed in the folder corresponding to the primary date (i.e., the date of the first and most recent paper in the group). Researchers should be aware that date ranges provided on folders refer to the primary dates of documents contained therein and that some items in the folder may predate that range. Otherwise, the general chronological scheme has been retained throughout the collection, with undated material placed at the beginning of the appropriate file.

Printed material is arranged in chronological order, with undated material at the beginning of the folder, and may include press releases, exhibition announcements, exhibition catalogs, posters, clippings from newspapers, magazines, and journals, and other publicity material. Large amounts of printed material are broken down into several discrete folder units.

The most consistent labeling system for photographic material apparent throughout the collection was title of work of art. The majority of images are not dated with a printing date or the date that the work of art was produced, and although many of them have a processing number, these are by no means consistent and there are no master lists that can be used to interpret them. Consequently, images are arranged primarily by media type and then alphabetically by title. Untitled images are placed at the beginning of a media group; "the" in a title is ignored. Exceptions to this method are addressed in the appropriate series descriptions.

Files labeled "Photographs of Works of Art" will typically include any or all of the following: black-and-white copy prints, black-and-white transparencies, color transparencies, slide transparencies, Polaroid prints, color snapshots, contact sheets, and separation sheets. Often the same image will be duplicated in several different formats. Any notes on photographic material found in or on the original folder in which the material was filed have been preserved with the material or transcribed onto a sheet of acid-free paper that either encloses or is placed directly before the item to which the information applies.

The designation "General" indicates that a file may contain any or all of the types of material outlined above.

Missing Title

Series 1: Artist Files, 1851-1991, undated (Boxes 1-23; 23 linear ft.)

Series 2: General Business Files, 1960-1991, undated (Boxes 24-28; 4.74 linear ft.)

Series 3: Group Exhibition Files, 1960-1988, undated (Boxes 28-29; 1 linear ft.)

Series 4: Photographs of Artists, undated (Box 29; 0.25 linear ft.)

Historical Note:

Robert Schoelkopf, Jr., was born in Queens, New York, in 1927. He graduated from Yale College in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree and then taught briefly at his alma mater while conducting graduate research in art history. Schoelkopf began his career in commercial art in 1957 as an independent dealer of American painting and sculpture and became a member of the Art Dealers Association of America in 1958. In 1959 he formed a partnership with Virginia Zabriskie, of the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, which lasted until 1962. The gallery exhibited late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American painting, together with contemporary painting of a somewhat conservative style.

In 1962 Schoelkopf signed a three-year lease for the fourth floor of a building at 825 Madison Avenue in New York, where he opened the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery. From the outset, Schoelkopf aimed to specialize in American painting of the nineteenth and twentieth century and sculpture of all schools. He predicted a burgeoning market for the Hudson River School in particular, believing that American painting was increasingly perceived as being worthy of serious attention. In a letter dated January 3, 1963, Schoelkopf congratulated John Spencer for his decision to collect nineteenth-century American paintings for the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, assuring him that "progressive chauvanism [ sic] will operate to elevate prices in American painting. Every year more colleges teach Art History, and soon they shall have reached the level of sophistication and development where they will be obliged (for face) to offer tuition in specifically American art - hitherto neglected of academicians.... I and many other dealers have plans for exhibitions of nineteenth-century American painting, especially the Hudson River School."

Schoelkopf's instincts regarding the Hudson River School were undoubtedly correct, and consequently nineteenth-century American painters formed a permanent mainstay of his inventory. He is perhaps remembered more, however, for his dedication to reviving interest in lesser-known American painters from the turn-of-the-century who were impressionist or modernist in style. Schoelkopf developed something of a reputation for unearthing forgotten talent that, while sometimes mediocre or inconsistent, was occasionally exceptional and certainly worthy of note. He was committed to reinstalling Joseph Stella in the pantheon of major American artists, representing Stella's estate from 1963 to 1971 and holding regular exhibitions of the artist's work from 1962 on. In 1969 the gallery held the first New York exhibition of the paintings of Manierre Dawson, who was subsequently acclaimed by the critics for his important and innovative contributions to modernism. In 1970 Schoelkopf began showing the work of Jan Matulka, an artist whose work had been neglected since the 1930s, and his enthusiastic representation of the Matulka estate paved the way for a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1979.

Schoelkopf's interest in turn-of-the-century artists also extended to sculptors such as John Flannagan, Ethel Myers, Elie Nadelman, and John Henry Bradley Storrs, and he directed considerable energy to furthering Gaston Lachaise's reputation as an artist of major stature. When Lachaise died at the peak of his career in 1935, his estate was left to his wife, Isabel, and in 1957 to Isabel's son, Edward. When Edward died shortly thereafter, John B. Pierce, Jr., a nephew of Isabel Lachaise, was appointed trustee of the estate and formed the Lachaise Foundation. In 1962 Pierce entered an agreement with Robert Schoelkopf and Felix Landau to represent Lachaise's sculpture on the East and West Coasts, respectively. In this capacity Schoelkopf helped to launch a major retrospective of the artist's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1964 and a traveling exhibition that began circulating in 1967.

The gallery's other major commitment was to painting and sculpture by contemporary American realists, many of whom worked in a figurative style and explored elements of allegory and classical mythology in their work, presenting landscapes, still lifes, and portraits from a realist perspective. The bulk of the gallery's exhibitions were, in fact, of work by contemporary artists, including metaphysical still-life painter William Bailey, colorist Leland Bell, figurative painter Martha Mayer Erlebacher, landscape and narrative painter Gabriel Laderman, and Icelandic artist Louisa Matthiasdottir. William Bailey was one of the gallery's most commercially successful artists, and his first one-person exhibition in New York was held there in 1968. Demand for Bailey's paintings often far exceeded his output, and by the late 1970s Schoelkopf invariably sold out his exhibitions and had compiled a lengthy waiting list for his work.

In its early years the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery contributed considerably to the development of interest in fine art photography that fostered an increasingly lucrative market for photographic prints during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965 Schoelkopf began incorporating photography into the gallery's exhibition schedule and, in the spring of 1974, opened a gallery dedicated to photography on the second floor at 825 Madison Avenue. Between 1965 and 1979 Schoelkopf's was the only serious New York gallery dealing in painting and sculpture that also regularly exhibited photography as fine art. His interests lay primarily in antiquarian photography and the work of nineteenth-century and twentieth-century masters including Eugéne Atget, Mathew Brady, James Robertson, and Carleton Watkins. Schoelkopf organized shows examining specific photographic processes, the photogravure and the cyanotype, and presented surveys of genres such as portrait and landscape photography. In 1967 he held the first exhibition in many years of the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, an important figure in the history of Victorian photography, timing it to coincide with a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that focused on Cameron as one of four Victorian photographers.

Schoelkopf also handled the work of several influential contemporaries, most notably Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and Gisèle Freund. The gallery held Freund's first exhibition in the United States in 1975 and was, for a time, the only place in New York where one could see and purchase prints by Cartier-Bresson. Schoelkopf began exhibiting Evans's work in 1966 and regularly thereafter, including a 1971 exhibition that coincided with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

In the fall of 1976 the second-floor gallery space was turned over to Marcuse (Cusie) Pfeifer, then the gallery's director, who planned to use it to show the work of young photographers in a gallery under her own name. Schoelkopf continued to hold several photography exhibitions a year in the fourth-floor gallery but decided to concentrate primarily on nineteenth-century masters.

In March 1971 a fire in the building at Madison Avenue resulted in substantial water damage to the gallery space. Although very little of the inventory was destroyed, the incident forced Schoelkopf to close until September. This temporary loss of revenue compounded with a nationwide recession cut into Schoelkopf's financial resources and left him questioning his commission policy and his level of commitment to contemporary work in all media. A letter to artist Adolph Rosenblatt dated May 3, 1971, records how Schoelkopf had become increasingly disenchanted with "all contemporary work" and would begin taking 40 percent commission on sales, instead of 33.3 percent. "Beside the matter of enthusiasm is the matter of economics," Schoelkopf remarked, "and the last year and a half have been really dreadful for the art business."

This difficult period was followed immediately by more prosperous times. January 1973 proved to be the gallery's most successful month to date, encouraging Schoelkopf to purchase a house in Chappaqua, New York, later that year. In November 1974 Schoelkopf wrote to Anthony D'Offay that business "is as slow as it has ever been, but what sales we make are big ones" and revealed that auctions had, at that point, become his primary avenue for trade.

Around 1975 Schoelkopf's wife of eleven years, Laura Jane Schoelkopf, began working in the gallery. Although seemingly dubious of the work at first, she became a considerable asset to the business and reputedly complemented her husband's relationship with the gallery's contemporary artists through her warmth and hospitality, qualities often noted by artists who corresponded regularly with the couple.

The financial instability that characterized the 1970s undoubtedly influenced Schoelkopf's decision to cease exhibiting photography in 1979. By 1978 however, his investment in early-twentieth-century art appeared to be paying off. Jan Matulka, Joseph Stella, and John Henry Bradley Storrs had all been represented in exhibitions at major museums, and sales of their work had increased considerably. Gaston Lachaise's reputation continued to grow, and the traveling exhibition still circulated, garnering far more interest than had originally been anticipated.

Although contemporary artists continued to take up the largest portion of the gallery's changing exhibitions, Schoelkopf's interest in contemporary work was growing more conservative, tending toward a narrower focus on the narrative and allegorical. By 1979 he no longer exhibited contemporary sculpture, admitting to a lack of enthusiasm for the work of any of the current figurative sculptors and a dislike of all contemporary abstract work. In a letter to Lillian Delevoryas, dated March 17, 1982, he confessed, "With age has come a hardening of the aesthetic arteries perhaps. What we have been showing is realism, but getting tighter all the time."

In April 1984 the gallery was moved to 50 West Fifty-seventh Street, and, during the years that followed, the Schoelkopfs pared down the number of contemporary artists they represented, handling only those to whom they felt most strongly committed while continuing to specialize in nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century American painting and sculpture. As the gallery approached its thirtieth anniversary, Schoelkopf's achievements were considerable. He had operated a successful New York gallery for almost three decades, rejuvenated the reputations of several important American artists, and was respected by artists and clients alike for the integrity, intelligence, and humor with which he conducted his business affairs. In 1987 he had been appointed to the board of trustees of the Williamstown Regional Art Conservation Laboratory. By this time he was also a member of the advisory board to the National Academy of Design, and in 1988 he became a co-trustee of the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

In March 1990, Robert Schoelkopf was diagnosed with leukemia and underwent a regimen of cancer treatment that resulted in a brief remission by the summer. Schoelkopf returned to work temporarily, but by 1991 his condition had worsened and he died in April of that year. Having known for some time that her husband's prognosis was poor, Laura Jane Schoelkopf had apparently decided that she would not continue the gallery in the event of his death. With the help of the youngest of their two sons, Andrew, she settled final accounts and assisted the gallery's contemporary artists in finding representation elsewhere before closing the business in August 1991.

Provenance:

Twenty-seven linear feet of records were donated to the Archives of American Art by Laura Jane Schoelkopf, Robert Schoelkopf's widow, and the Coe Kerr Gallery in 1991 and 1992. An additional gift of 3.4 linear feet was donated by Laura Jane Schoelkopf in 1996. The collection was reduced slightly during processing.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Topic:

Art, Modern -- 20th century  Search this

Works of art  Search this

Photography, Artistic  Search this

Realism  Search this

Art, American  Search this

Function:

Art galleries, Commercial -- New York (State)

Genre/Form:

Gallery records

Illustrated letters

Photographs

Citation:

Robert Schoelkopf Gallery records, 1851-1991, bulk 1962-1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.robeschg

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9773faf46-baaa-4d12-8e4f-cc58adc2787a

EDAN-URL:

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Collector:

United States National Museum, Department of Anthropology, Division of Old World Archeology  Search this

Van Beek, Gus W. (Gus Willard), 1922-  Search this

Extent:

6 Prints (silver gelatin and albumen)

2 Cyanotypes

1 Print (halftone)

Culture:

Roman  Search this

Greek  Search this

Egyptians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Cyanotypes

Postcards

Photographs

Place:

Zimbabwe

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs depicting classical art and architecture from Rome, Egypt and elsewhere. They include images of classical sculpture in Rome, an Egyptian papyrus, as well as additional sculpture, coins, and other items. There is also a postcard from A. C. Haddon that shows Smart & Copley's photograph of the Matopos in Zimbabwe. Some of the photographs are mounted, possibly for publication.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 79-38

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Photographs from accessions 29586, 40922, 121411, 124072, and 161740, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 158, Photo Lot 161, Photo Lot 76-78, Photo Lot 160, and Photo Lot 159, respectively.

Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-34.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Art, Egyptian  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Coins  Search this

Sculpture  Search this

Genre/Form:

Postcards

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 79-38, Division of Old World Archeology collection of photographs of ancient sculpture, architecture, and art, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.79-38

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3975d8ab7-19ce-42fb-b866-6d1d64a439a3

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

3609 Cyanotypes (photographic prints) (b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm)

343 Copy prints (b&w)

3,890 Glass plate negatives (b&w, 13 cm. x 18 cm)

42 Lantern slides (color, 10 cm. x 15 cm)

8,541 Photographic prints (b&w, various dimensions)

Type:

Archival materials

Cyanotypes (photographic prints)

Copy prints

Glass plate negatives

Lantern slides

Photographic prints

Glass negatives

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Jordan

Lebanon

Syria

Turkey

Mesopotamia

Aleppo (Syria)

Bakun, Tall-e (Iran)

Baʻlabakk (Lebanon)

Bīshāpūr (Extinct city)

Bisutun Site (Iran)

Damascus (Syria)

Fīrūzābād (Iran)

Ḥimṣ (Syria)

Iṣfahān (Iran)

Luristān (Iran)

Nahāvand (Iran)

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran)

Paikuli (Iraq)

Palmyra (Syria)

Pasargadae (Extinct city)

Persepolis (Iran)

Petra (Extinct city)

Sāmarrāʼ (Iraq)

Sīstān va Balūchistān (Iran)

Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran)

Tripoli (Lebanon)

Date:

1903-1947

1899-1947

Scope and Contents:

The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives.

The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories--i.e. Prehistoric pottery, bronzes, stone; Persepolis; Sasanian monuments; Syrian monuments, Persian architecture and landscapes, etc.--irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1--6. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located.

In addition to the blueprint binders there were three Albums - Photo Files 25 (Sasanian buildings), 27 (Parthian and Sasanian sculptures) and 28 (Pre-Achaemenian monuments and Pasargadae)--in which Herzfeld had arranged prints in a sequence for study or publication purposes. The order in those Photo Files retains that in the Albums.

In addition to the glass negatives, there is an even larger number of cut films. On his archaeological study trips, Herzfeld was accustomed to supplement his photographs on glass plates with photographs on cut film--sometimes of the same subjects, often of other subjects. Some prints to these negative were identified on the back or could be identified from other prints; but in many instances, especially of landscapes, it has not been possible to place them, except in general categories.

Prints from the cut films have been organized, so far as feasible, in groups of related material and placed in the Photo Files of similar subject matter. The negative number appears in the Photo File. Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources for study purposes. Of those there are no negatives, So far as possible, the prints have been identified and placed in the appropriate Photo File.

The Samarra material, Photo Files 19--23, is in a special category. Files 22 and 23 were arranged in Albums labeled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II", respectively. The only identification was written on the backs of the prints, glued to the pages of the Albums. These notations have been transferred to the captions in the Photo Files. These two Albums apparently were arranged by Herzfeld with a view to a publication of the architecture of Samarra which was never prepared. The drawings for such a publication are in this collection.

With such a large number of prints, especially in view of the fact that some were arranged in different fashions for different purposes, it is inevitable that there should be some duplication and that related material may be found in several Photo Files. The only way a user can be sure he has not missed material concerning his particular interest is to examine the Photo File Lists where every print is recorded. Inasmuch as scholars study the same monument from different points of view, the fact that a photograph has been published in one context does not diminish its value in another context.

Note: Photo Files 35--42 consist of Oriental Institute prints of which the negatives are in Chicago. The prints may be published only with the written permission of the Oriental Institute.

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files," which is composed of b&w glass negatives, color lantern slides, b&w photographic prints (both modern and original), b&w cyanotypes, large format b&w films, and b&w duplicate prints (both modern and original), iwas originally organized into three subseries, the glass n and covers Herzfeld's travels and surveys of the most major archaeological sites in Persia, Mesopotamia and Northern Syria, from 1923 to 1931. It also covers the field activities at Pasargadae (Spring 1928) and of the Persepolis Expedition (1931).

- The Herzfeld Papers in the Archives contains 3,890 glass negatives (FSA A.6 04.GN.0001- to FSA A.6 04.GN.5075), which includes eight sketchbooks (Skizzenbücher I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII), covers Herzfeld's travels and surveys of the most major archaeological sites in Persia from 1923 to 1924.

The Herzfeld Papers in the Archives contains 3,890 glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 5,066, without any apparent organization. Of most of these, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories&#x2014i.e. Prehistoric pottery, bronzes, stone; Persepolis; Sasanian monuments; Syrian monuments, Persian architecture and landscapes, etc.&#x2014irrespective of the number on the negative.

In addition to the glass negatives and blueprints, there are a series of 16 binders made of photographic prints (Photo Files, Nos. 1-16) and three albums (Photo Files, Nos. 25, 27, and 28). As well, approximately 1,069 photographic prints, which have no negatives, arranged in Photo Files 19-23, are in a special category. In File 19, prints of illustrations in Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol. 1: Der Wandschmuck der Bauten von Samarra und seine Ornamentik. In File 20, prints of illustrations in Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol.2: Die Keramik von Samarra von F. Sarre, supplemented by unpublished photos of ceramics. In the same file, prints of illustrations in Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol.6: Die Geschichte der Stadt Samarra. In File 21, prints of illustrations in Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, vol.3: Die Malereien von Samarra. At the end of the file, there are unpublished photographs. Files 22 and 23 were arranged in Albums labeled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II", respectively. These two Albums apparently were arranged by Herzfeld with a view to a publication of the architecture of the palaces, mosques and private houses of Samarra which was never prepared. The only identification, written on the backs of the prints which were glued to the Album page, had a first number in red crayon used in the captions as the negative number. In some cases, an additional number is given in blue crayon, possibly indicating a revision of the list or an alternative negative. The encircled number on the margin gives the position in the Album.

In addition to the glass negatives and the Photo Files, there is an even larger number of cut films and a package of duplicate prints which are, for the most part, unpublished. On his archaeological study trips, Herzfeld was accustomed to supplement his photographs on glass plates with photographs on cut film&#x2014sometimes of the same subjects, often of other subjects.

Arrangement:

- Glass Negatives, numbered from 1 to 5,075, originally stored in 80 wooden boxes of approximately 50 photographs each, are housed in document boxes and stored on shelves.

- Prints are organized in sequential number following publication series, "Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra." They are arranged in photo file folders which are housed in document boxes, and stored on shelves.

Biographical / Historical:

"Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879-1948) was an orientalist whose many talents led him to explore all phases of Near Eastern culture, from the prehistoric period to Islamic times and from linguistics and religion to art and architecture." [Margaret Cool Root, 1976: "The Herzfeld Archive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 11, pp. 119-124."]

Local Numbers:

FSA A.06 4

General:

Titles are provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Ernst Herzfeld's publications and on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

The Papers primarly relate to Herzfeld's survey of the monuments, artifacts, and inscriptions of Western Asia between 1903 and 1947 and particularly to his excavations at Istakhr (Iran), Paikuli (Iraq), Pasargadae (Iran), Persepolis (Iran), Samarra (Iraq) and Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran), as well as various archaeological expeditions throughout Cilicia, Mesopotamia, Northern Syria, and Persia. Additional research material, probably collected by Moritz Sobernheim and Max Freiherr von Oppenheim but preserved by Ernst Herzfeld, was part of a broader project, that of Max van Berchem's "Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum."

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Abbasids  Search this

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Architectural drawing  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Cartography  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Description and Travel  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Numismatics  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Relief (Sculpture)  Search this

Religious buildings  Search this

Royalty (Nobility)  Search this

Sassanids  Search this

Shrines  Search this

Textile design  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographic prints

Glass negatives

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Series 4

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3589ce572-a594-42bf-99d6-d59bb6c660db

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref10847

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (220 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Baghdad (Iraq)

Nahāvand (Iran)

Date:

1904-1946

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

Frye--The Heritage of Iran, R.N. Frye

AMI--Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Herzfeld

IAE--Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

ID--Iranische Denkmäler. Lieferung 3/4 Niphauanda, Herzfeld

SK--Refers to Herzfeld's Sketchbooks in the Archive

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 1", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 220 cyanotype prints (blueprints) of antiquities, prehistoric pottery with painted patterns (geometric ornaments and animal design), bronze and stone objects from the prehistoric mound of Tepe Giyan (Iran) as well as acquired in Baghdad (iraq).

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 1" is composed of 220 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.0234; FSA a.6 04.GN.0235; FSA a.6 04.GN.0008; FSA a.6 04.GN.0761; FSA a.6 04.GN.0090; FSA a.6 04.GN.0755; FSA a.6 04.GN.0771; FSA a.6 04.GN.0012; FSA a.6 04.GN.0011; FSA a.6 04.GN.0070; FSA a.6 04.GN.0060; FSA a.6 04.GN.0201; FSA a.6 04.GN.0128; FSA a.6 04.GN.0129; FSA a.6 04.GN.0867; FSA a.6 04.GN.0714; FSA a.6 04.GN.0712; FSA a.6 04.GN.0089; FSA a.6 04.GN.0863; FSA a.6 04.GN.0136; FSA a.6 04.GN.0132; FSA a.6 04.GN.0756; FSA a.6 04.GN.0077; FSA a.6 04.GN.0134; FSA a.6 04.GN.0062; FSA a.6 04.GN.0072; FSA a.6 04.GN.0080; FSA a.6 04.GN.0081; FSA a.6 04.GN.0071; FSA a.6 04.GN.0766; FSA a.6 04.GN.0713; FSA a.6 04.GN.0758; FSA a.6 04.GN.0082; FSA a.6 04.GN.0007; FSA a.6 04.GN.0005; FSA a.6 04.GN.0006; FSA a.6 04.GN.0135; FSA a.6 04.GN.0087; FSA a.6 04.GN.0074; FSA a.6 04.GN.0868; FSA a.6 04.GN.0065; FSA a.6 04.GN.0066; FSA a.6 04.GN.0002; FSA a.6 04.GN.0079; FSA a.6 04.GN.0751; FSA a.6 04.GN.0133; FSA a.6 04.GN.0760; FSA a.6 04.GN.0763; FSA a.6 04.GN.0200; FSA a.6 04.GN.0198; FSA a.6 04.GN.0036; FSA a.6 04.GN.0073; FSA a.6 04.GN.0749; FSA a.6 04.GN.0112; FSA a.6 04.GN.0064; FSA a.6 04.GN.0768; FSA a.6 04.GN.0111; FSA a.6 04.GN.0076; FSA a.6 04.GN.0197; FSA a.6 04.GN.0009; FSA a.6 04.GN.0010; FSA a.6 04.GN.0206; FSA a.6 04.GN.0001; FSA a.6 04.GN.0092; FSA a.6 04.GN.0202; FSA a.6 04.GN.0047; FSA a.6 04.GN.0110; FSA a.6 04.GN.0061; FSA a.6 04.GN.0093; FSA a.6 04.GN.0203; FSA a.6 04.GN.0199; FSA a.6 04.GN.0053; FSA a.6 04.GN.0034; FSA a.6 04.GN.0024; FSA a.6 04.GN.0385; FSA a.6 04.GN.0208; FSA a.6 04.GN.0209; FSA a.6 04.GN.0186; FSA a.6 04.GN.0189; FSA a.6 04.GN.0085; FSA a.6 04.GN.0044; FSA a.6 04.GN.0115; FSA a.6 04.GN.0046; FSA a.6 04.GN.0196; FSA a.6 04.GN.0752; FSA a.6 04.GN.0042; FSA a.6 04.GN.0084; FSA a.6 04.GN.0097; FSA a.6 04.GN.0767; FSA a.6 04.GN.0207; FSA a.6 04.GN.0004; FSA a.6 04.GN.0067; FSA a.6 04.GN.0754; FSA a.6 04.GN.0187; FSA a.6 04.GN.0764; FSA a.6 04.GN.0764a; FSA a.6 04.GN.0003; FSA a.6 04.GN.0191; FSA a.6 04.GN.0192; FSA a.6 04.GN.0869; FSA a.6 04.GN.0772; FSA a.6 04.GN.0190; FSA a.6 04.GN.0770; FSA a.6 04.GN.0719; FSA a.6 04.GN.0068; FSA a.6 04.GN.0137; FSA a.6 04.GN.0193; FSA a.6 04.GN.0073; FSA a.6 04.GN.0759; FSA a.6 04.GN.0194; FSA a.6 04.GN.0086; FSA a.6 04.GN.0043; FSA a.6 04.GN.0069; FSA a.6 04.GN.0773; FSA a.6 04.GN.0750; FSA a.6 04.GN.0063; FSA a.6 04.GN.0106; FSA a.6 04.GN.0102; FSA a.6 04.GN.0039; FSA a.6 04.GN.0038; FSA a.6 04.GN.0866; FSA a.6 04.GN.0870; FSA a.6 04.GN.0108; FSA a.6 04.GN.0040; FSA a.6 04.GN.0037; FSA a.6 04.GN.0107; FSA a.6 04.GN.0204; FSA a.6 04.GN.0195; FSA a.6 04.GN.0765; FSA a.6 04.GN.0765a; FSA a.6 04.GN.0109; FSA a.6 04.GN.0753; FSA a.6 04.GN.0205; FSA a.6 04.GN.0104; FSA a.6 04.GN.0769; FSA a.6 04.GN.0720; FSA a.6 04.GN.0864; FSA a.6 04.GN.0865; FSA a.6 04.GN.0045; FSA a.6 04.GN.0047; FSA a.6 04.GN.1076; FSA a.6 04.GN.1075; FSA a.6 04.GN.1086; FSA a.6 04.GN.1085; FSA a.6 04.GN.1078; FSA a.6 04.GN.1144; FSA a.6 04.GN.1080; FSA a.6 04.GN.0131; FSA a.6 04.GN.1077; FSA a.6 04.GN.1084; FSA a.6 04.GN.1083; FSA a.6 04.GN.1079; FSA a.6 04.GN.0078; FSA a.6 04.GN.0059; FSA a.6 04.GN.0091; FSA a.6 04.GN.0715; FSA a.6 04.GN.0871; FSA a.6 04.GN.0088; FSA a.6 04.GN.0083; FSA a.6 04.GN.0130; FSA a.6 04.GN.0762; FSA a.6 04.GN.0096; FSA a.6 04.GN.0114; FSA a.6 04.GN.0113; FSA a.6 04.GN.0105; FSA a.6 04.GN.0148; FSA a.6 04.GN.1176; FSA a.6 04.GN.1098; FSA a.6 04.GN.1140; FSA a.6 04.GN.0161; FSA a.6 04.GN.0539; FSA a.6 04.GN.0540; FSA a.6 04.GN.0521; FSA a.6 04.GN.0732; FSA a.6 04.GN.0733; FSA a.6 04.GN.0017; FSA a.6 04.GN.0016; FSA a.6 04.GN.0522; FSA a.6 04.GN.0734; FSA a.6 04.GN.0015; FSA a.6 04.GN.0018; FSA a.6 04.GN.0736; FSA a.6 04.GN.0523; FSA a.6 04.GN.0524; FSA a.6 04.GN.0731; FSA a.6 04.GN.1091; FSA a.6 04.GN.0023; FSA a.6 04.GN.0507; FSA a.6 04.GN.0508; FSA a.6 04.GN.0501; FSA a.6 04.GN.0500; FSA a.6 04.GN.0506; FSA a.6 04.GN.0496; FSA a.6 04.GN.0498; FSA a.6 04.GN.0236; FSA a.6 04.GN.0237; FSA a.6 04.GN.0238; FSA a.6 04.GN.0239; FSA a.6 04.GN.0249; FSA a.6 04.GN.0251; FSA a.6 04.GN.0499; FSA a.6 04.GN.0246; FSA a.6 04.GN.0255; FSA a.6 04.GN.0247; FSA a.6 04.GN.0497; FSA a.6 04.GN.0254; FSA a.6 04.GN.0248; FSA a.6 04.GN.0250; FSA a.6 04.GN.0256; FSA a.6 04.GN.0257; FSA a.6 04.GN.0253; FSA a.6 04.GN.0240; FSA a.6 04.GN.0241; FSA a.6 04.GN.0243; FSA a.6 04.GN.0244; FSA a.6 04.GN.0245; FSA a.6 04.GN.0242; FSA a.6 04.GN.0502; FSA a.6 04.GN.0503; FSA a.6 04.GN.0014; FSA a.6 04.GN.0013."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Prehistoric Pottery, etc., Bronzes, Stone (Cyanotypes File 1)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 1

FSA A.6 04.CY.01

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.1

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc39e190a23-fda5-4f60-b557-68e01ef7ad63

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (225 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Bisutun Site (Iran)

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran)

Pasargadae (Extinct city)

Shīrāz (Iran)

Date:

1904-1946

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

AHI--Archaeological History of Iran, Herzfeld

AMI--Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Herzfeld

Frye--The Heritage of Iran, R.N.Frye

IAE--Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

TA--Am Tor von Asien, Herzfeld

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 2", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 225 cyanotype prints (blueprints) related to archaeological sites and rock relief inscriptions and sculptures at Bisutun site (Iran), Jinjun (Iran), Kurangun (Iran), Sarpul (Iran), Dukkan i Daud (Iran), Sahna (Iran), Sardasht (Iran), Nurabad (Iran) and the ruins of Mil-i Azhdaha tower (Iran), Kaleh-i Safid (Iran), Qasr-i Abu Nasr (Iran), Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran), Istakhr (Iran), and Pasargadae (Iran).

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 2" is composed of 225 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.2169; FSA a.6 04.GN.1490; FSA a.6 04.GN.1492; FSA a.6 04.GN.1491; FSA a.6 04.GN.2170; FSA a.6 04.GN.2171; FSA a.6 04.GN.2172; FSA a.6 04.GN.2173; FSA a.6 04.GN.2174; FSA a.6 04.GN.2175; FSA a.6 04.GN.1495; FSA a.6 04.GN.1493; FSA a.6 04.GN.1494; FSA a.6 04.GN.1496; FSA a.6 04.GN.1498; FSA a.6 04.GN.1499; FSA a.6 04.GN.1497; FSA a.6 04.GN.1500; FSA a.6 04.GN.1505; FSA a.6 04.GN.1501; FSA a.6 04.GN.1502; FSA a.6 04.GN.1503; FSA a.6 04.GN.1504; FSA a.6 04.GN.2176; FSA a.6 04.GN.2177; FSA a.6 04.GN.1506; FSA a.6 04.GN.1507; FSA a.6 04.GN.1508; FSA a.6 04.GN.1509; FSA a.6 04.GN.1510; FSA a.6 04.GN.1511; FSA a.6 04.GN.1512; FSA a.6 04.GN.1514; FSA a.6 04.GN.1513; FSA a.6 04.GN.1515; FSA a.6 04.GN.1516; FSA a.6 04.GN.1517; FSA a.6 04.GN.1007; FSA a.6 04.GN.1518; FSA a.6 04.GN.1178; FSA a.6 04.GN.0985; FSA a.6 04.GN.1008; FSA a.6 04.GN.2178; FSA a.6 04.GN.1520; FSA a.6 04.GN.1521; FSA a.6 04.GN.1522; FSA a.6 04.GN.1523; FSA a.6 04.GN.1527; FSA a.6 04.GN.1525; FSA a.6 04.GN.1524; FSA a.6 04.GN.1526; FSA a.6 04.GN.1519; FSA a.6 04.GN.1528; FSA a.6 04.GN.0300; FSA a.6 04.GN.0298; FSA a.6 04.GN.1529; FSA a.6 04.GN.1530; FSA a.6 04.GN.0299; FSA a.6 04.GN.0416; FSA a.6 04.GN.1531; FSA a.6 04.GN.1534; FSA a.6 04.GN.1535; FSA a.6 04.GN.1014; FSA a.6 04.GN.0413; FSA a.6 04.GN.1163; FSA a.6 04.GN.0419; FSA a.6 04.GN.0474; FSA a.6 04.GN.0460; FSA a.6 04.GN.0301; FSA a.6 04.GN.0302; FSA a.6 04.GN.0265; FSA a.6 04.GN.2212; FSA a.6 04.GN.2213; FSA a.6 04.GN.0449; FSA a.6 04.GN.0448; FSA a.6 04.GN.1543; FSA a.6 04.GN.2204; FSA a.6 04.GN.2205; FSA a.6 04.GN.1541; FSA a.6 04.GN.1542; FSA a.6 04.GN.2206; FSA a.6 04.GN.2207; FSA a.6 04.GN.2208; FSA a.6 04.GN.2209; FSA a.6 04.GN.2210; FSA a.6 04.GN.2211; FSA a.6 04.GN.2202; FSA a.6 04.GN.2201; FSA a.6 04.GN.2199; FSA a.6 04.GN.2200; FSA a.6 04.GN.2203; FSA a.6 04.GN.0294; FSA a.6 04.GN.0296; FSA a.6 04.GN.1009; FSA a.6 04.GN.0417; FSA a.6 04.GN.0997; FSA a.6 04.GN.1540; FSA a.6 04.GN.1539; FSA a.6 04.GN.2198; FSA a.6 04.GN.0471; FSA a.6 04.GN.0468; FSA a.6 04.GN.0454; FSA a.6 04.GN.2191; FSA a.6 04.GN.2190; FSA a.6 04.GN.1536; FSA a.6 04.GN.1537; FSA a.6 04.GN.0457; FSA a.6 04.GN.0467; FSA a.6 04.GN.2189; FSA a.6 04.GN.0957; FSA a.6 04.GN.2194; FSA a.6 04.GN.1157; FSA a.6 04.GN.2193; FSA a.6 04.GN.1161; FSA a.6 04.GN.0418; FSA a.6 04.GN.2192; FSA a.6 04.GN.1190; FSA a.6 04.GN.2195; FSA a.6 04.GN.2196; FSA a.6 04.GN.2197; FSA a.6 04.GN.1179; FSA a.6 04.GN.0981; FSA a.6 04.GN.0980; FSA a.6 04.GN.0982; FSA a.6 04.GN.0453; FSA a.6 04.GN.0470; FSA a.6 04.GN.0276; FSA a.6 04.GN.0451; FSA a.6 04.GN.0275; FSA a.6 04.GN.0277; FSA a.6 04.GN.0455; FSA a.6 04.GN.0272; FSA a.6 04.GN.0988; FSA a.6 04.GN.0412; FSA a.6 04.GN.1538; FSA a.6 04.GN.0466; FSA a.6 04.GN.0415; FSA a.6 04.GN.0459; FSA a.6 04.GN.0297; FSA a.6 04.GN.0295; FSA a.6 04.GN.1187; FSA a.6 04.GN.0458; FSA a.6 04.GN.0278; FSA a.6 04.GN.0452; FSA a.6 04.GN.0450; FSA a.6 04.GN.0491; FSA a.6 04.GN.0462; FSA a.6 04.GN.0463; FSA a.6 04.GN.1117; FSA a.6 04.GN.0469; FSA a.6 04.GN.0465; FSA a.6 04.GN.0464; FSA a.6 04.GN.0456; FSA a.6 04.GN.0409; FSA a.6 04.GN.0410; FSA a.6 04.GN.1533; FSA a.6 04.GN.1532; FSA a.6 04.GN.1119; FSA a.6 04.GN.1006; FSA a.6 04.GN.1160; FSA a.6 04.GN.2215; FSA a.6 04.GN.2216; FSA a.6 04.GN.2217; FSA a.6 04.GN.2214; FSA a.6 04.GN.1545; FSA a.6 04.GN.1547; FSA a.6 04.GN.1546; FSA a.6 04.GN.1544; FSA a.6 04.GN.1548; FSA a.6 04.GN.1549; FSA a.6 04.GN.1550; FSA a.6 04.GN.1551; FSA a.6 04.GN.1468; FSA a.6 04.GN.1468a; FSA a.6 04.GN.0422; FSA a.6 04.GN.0308; FSA a.6 04.GN.0307; FSA a.6 04.GN.0326; FSA a.6 04.GN.2240; FSA a.6 04.GN.2241; FSA a.6 04.GN.0268; FSA a.6 04.GN.1564; FSA a.6 04.GN.1567; FSA a.6 04.GN.1568; FSA a.6 04.GN.1565; FSA a.6 04.GN.1566; FSA a.6 04.GN.0964; FSA a.6 04.GN.2242; FSA a.6 04.GN.2243; FSA a.6 04.GN.1186; FSA a.6 04.GN.1185; FSA a.6 04.GN.1184; FSA a.6 04.GN.1183; FSA a.6 04.GN.1182; FSA a.6 04.GN.1181; FSA a.6 04.GN.1180; FSA a.6 04.GN.1062; FSA a.6 04.GN.1061; FSA a.6 04.GN.1060; FSA a.6 04.GN.1059; FSA a.6 04.GN.1058; FSA a.6 04.GN.1057; FSA a.6 04.GN.1056; FSA a.6 04.GN.1055; FSA a.6 04.GN.1054; FSA a.6 04.GN.1053; FSA a.6 04.GN.1052; FSA a.6 04.GN.1051; FSA a.6 04.GN.1050; FSA a.6 04.GN.0421; FSA a.6 04.GN.0420; FSA a.6 04.GN.0411; FSA a.6 04.GN.2179; FSA a.6 04.GN.2180; FSA a.6 04.GN.2182; FSA a.6 04.GN.2184; FSA a.6 04.GN.2181; FSA a.6 04.GN.2185; FSA a.6 04.GN.2186; FSA a.6 04.GN.2187; FSA a.6 04.GN.2188; FSA a.6 04.GN.2183; FSA a.6 04.GN.2249; FSA a.6 04.GN.2250; FSA a.6 04.GN.2251; FSA a.6 04.GN.2252."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Pre-Achaemenian, Pasargadae, Naqsh-i Rustam, Istakhr (Cyanotypes File 2)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 2

FSA A.6 04.CY.02

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Achaemenian inscriptions  Search this

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Cuneiform inscriptions  Search this

Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian  Search this

Inscriptions, Aramaic  Search this

Cuneiform inscriptions, Elamite  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Natural landscapes  Search this

Old Persian inscriptions  Search this

Relief (Sculpture)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.2

See more items in:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers

Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc362d43116-37f1-4d77-9b8f-c4acfa5c986a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-fsa-a-06-ref11356

Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (203 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Luristān (Iran)

Nahāvand (Iran)

Date:

1904-1946

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

AMI--Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Herzfeld

Frye--The Heritage of Iran, R.N.Frye

IAE--Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 3", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 203 cyanotype prints (blueprints) of antiquities, bronzes, clay objects, buttons and seals, flints, as well as pottery with painted patterns (geometric ornaments and animal design), from Burujird (Iran), Gilweran (Iran), Harsin (Iran), Nahavand (Iran), Saveh (Iran), Sistan (Iran), Northern Iran as well as Luristan, including Harsin (Iran), Nahavand (Iran) and the prehistoric mound of Tepe Giyan (Iran)

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 3" is composed of 203 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.0788; FSA a.6 04.GN.0543; FSA a.6 04.GN.0538; FSA a.6 04.GN.0786; FSA a.6 04.GN.0787; FSA a.6 04.GN.0535; FSA a.6 04.GN.0534; FSA a.6 04.GN.0536; FSA a.6 04.GN.0790; FSA a.6 04.GN.0789; FSA a.6 04.GN.0544; FSA a.6 04.GN.0791; FSA a.6 04.GN.1148; FSA a.6 04.GN.0542; FSA a.6 04.GN.0537; FSA a.6 04.GN.0797; FSA a.6 04.GN.0532; FSA a.6 04.GN.0730; FSA a.6 04.GN.0533; FSA a.6 04.GN.0796; FSA a.6 04.GN.0492; FSA a.6 04.GN.0958; FSA a.6 04.GN.0959; FSA a.6 04.GN.0487; FSA a.6 04.GN.0485; FSA a.6 04.GN.0484; FSA a.6 04.GN.0488; FSA a.6 04.GN.0494; FSA a.6 04.GN.0792; FSA a.6 04.GN.0793; FSA a.6 04.GN.0794; FSA a.6 04.GN.0493; FSA a.6 04.GN.0495; FSA a.6 04.GN.0795; FSA a.6 04.GN.0530; FSA a.6 04.GN.0960; FSA a.6 04.GN.0961; FSA a.6 04.GN.0531; FSA a.6 04.GN.0724; FSA a.6 04.GN.0725; FSA a.6 04.GN.0541; FSA a.6 04.GN.0490; FSA a.6 04.GN.0491; FSA a.6 04.GN.0489; FSA a.6 04.GN.0741; FSA a.6 04.GN.0742; FSA a.6 04.GN.0740; FSA a.6 04.GN.0504; FSA a.6 04.GN.0737; FSA a.6 04.GN.0744; FSA a.6 04.GN.0745; FSA a.6 04.GN.0969; FSA a.6 04.GN.0746; FSA a.6 04.GN.0747; FSA a.6 04.GN.0748; FSA a.6 04.GN.0743; FSA a.6 04.GN.1141; FSA a.6 04.GN.0826; FSA a.6 04.GN.0829; FSA a.6 04.GN.0831; FSA a.6 04.GN.0833; FSA a.6 04.GN.0823; FSA a.6 04.GN.1082; FSA a.6 04.GN.1081; FSA a.6 04.GN.0830; FSA a.6 04.GN.0834; FSA a.6 04.GN.0822; FSA a.6 04.GN.0824; FSA a.6 04.GN.0835; FSA a.6 04.GN.0832; FSA a.6 04.GN.0825; FSA a.6 04.GN.0252; FSA a.6 04.GN.0892; FSA a.6 04.GN.1110; FSA a.6 04.GN.0891; FSA a.6 04.GN.1376; FSA a.6 04.GN.1377; FSA a.6 04.GN.1378; FSA a.6 04.GN.1379; FSA a.6 04.GN.1380; FSA a.6 04.GN.1383; FSA a.6 04.GN.1384; FSA a.6 04.GN.1385; FSA a.6 04.GN.1386; FSA a.6 04.GN.0035; FSA a.6 04.GN.0116; FSA a.6 04.GN.0026; FSA a.6 04.GN.0025; FSA a.6 04.GN.0118; FSA a.6 04.GN.0358; FSA a.6 04.GN.0380; FSA a.6 04.GN.0379; FSA a.6 04.GN.0103; FSA a.6 04.GN.0292; FSA a.6 04.GN.0351; FSA a.6 04.GN.0352; FSA a.6 04.GN.1118; FSA a.6 04.GN.0117; FSA a.6 04.GN.0126; FSA a.6 04.GN.0378; FSA a.6 04.GN.0528; FSA a.6 04.GN.0529; FSA a.6 04.GN.0526; FSA a.6 04.GN.0527; FSA a.6 04.GN.0100; FSA a.6 04.GN.0565; FSA a.6 04.GN.0557; FSA a.6 04.GN.0098; FSA a.6 04.GN.1175; FSA a.6 04.GN.1174; FSA a.6 04.GN.1159; FSA a.6 04.GN.0019; FSA a.6 04.GN.0392; FSA a.6 04.GN.0486; FSA a.6 04.GN.0391; FSA a.6 04.GN.0048; FSA a.6 04.GN.0119; FSA a.6 04.GN.0056; FSA a.6 04.GN.0384; FSA a.6 04.GN.0049; FSA a.6 04.GN.0360; FSA a.6 04.GN.0127; FSA a.6 04.GN.0055; FSA a.6 04.GN.0355; FSA a.6 04.GN.0356; FSA a.6 04.GN.0376; FSA a.6 04.GN.0123; FSA a.6 04.GN.0028; FSA a.6 04.GN.0058; FSA a.6 04.GN.0030; FSA a.6 04.GN.0027; FSA a.6 04.GN.0377; FSA a.6 04.GN.0383; FSA a.6 04.GN.0359; FSA a.6 04.GN.0122; FSA a.6 04.GN.0353; FSA a.6 04.GN.0051; FSA a.6 04.GN.0382; FSA a.6 04.GN.0361; FSA a.6 04.GN.0054; FSA a.6 04.GN.0033; FSA a.6 04.GN.0032; FSA a.6 04.GN.0031; FSA a.6 04.GN.0050; FSA a.6 04.GN.0386; FSA a.6 04.GN.0120; FSA a.6 04.GN.0052; FSA a.6 04.GN.0862; FSA a.6 04.GN.0860; FSA a.6 04.GN.0125; FSA a.6 04.GN.0124; FSA a.6 04.GN.0362; FSA a.6 04.GN.0381; FSA a.6 04.GN.0188; FSA a.6 04.GN.0861; FSA a.6 04.GN.0121; FSA a.6 04.GN.0357; FSA a.6 04.GN.0029; FSA a.6 04.GN.0057; FSA a.6 04.GN.0387; FSA a.6 04.GN.0285; FSA a.6 04.GN.0279; FSA a.6 04.GN.0394; FSA a.6 04.GN.0735; FSA a.6 04.GN.0281; FSA a.6 04.GN.0284; FSA a.6 04.GN.0286; FSA a.6 04.GN.0288; FSA a.6 04.GN.3181; FSA a.6 04.GN.0230; FSA a.6 04.GN.3213; FSA a.6 04.GN.3214; FSA a.6 04.GN.0389; FSA a.6 04.GN.0390; FSA a.6 04.GN.0399; FSA a.6 04.GN.0283; FSA a.6 04.GN.0396; FSA a.6 04.GN.1142; FSA a.6 04.GN.0290; FSA a.6 04.GN.0287; FSA a.6 04.GN.0525; FSA a.6 04.GN.0398; FSA a.6 04.GN.0395; FSA a.6 04.GN.0289; FSA a.6 04.GN.0397; FSA a.6 04.GN.0726; FSA a.6 04.GN.0729; FSA a.6 04.GN.0728; FSA a.6 04.GN.0393; FSA a.6 04.GN.0282; FSA a.6 04.GN.3182; FSA a.6 04.GN.3180; FSA a.6 04.GN.0723; FSA a.6 04.GN.0095; FSA a.6 04.GN.0716; FSA a.6 04.GN.0717; FSA a.6 04.GN.0354; FSA a.6 04.GN.0101; FSA a.6 04.GN.0094; FSA a.6 04.GN.0722; FSA a.6 04.GN.0099; FSA a.6 04.GN.0721; FSA a.6 04.GN.3215."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Pre-Achaemenian Objects (Cyanotypes File 3)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 3

FSA A.6 04.CY.03

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Seals (Numismatics)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.3

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (193 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Bakun, Tall-e (Iran)

Date:

1904-1946

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in the captions of published photos are:

IAE--Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

ID--Iranische Denkmäler. Lieferung 3/4 Niphauanda, Herzfeld

These two volumes contain photos of the finds from a village excavated on the plain near the ruins of Persepolis. They should be studied in conjunction with the water-colors and ink drawings: D--05--36 and D--82--88. See also Photo File 41

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 4", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 193 photographic prints related to a trial excavation undertook by Ernst Herzfeld in the Summer 1928 as well as a campaign of excavation at the western mound, Tall-i-Bakun A under the auspice of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, carried out by Alexander Langsdorff under Ernst Herzfeld's direction between March 25, 1932 and July 21, 1932.

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 4" is composed of 203 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.0890; FSA a.6 04.GN.0509; FSA a.6 04.GN.0510; FSA a.6 04.GN.0512; FSA a.6 04.GN.0513; FSA a.6 04.GN.0516; FSA a.6 04.GN.0517; FSA a.6 04.GN.1169; FSA a.6 04.GN.1170; FSA a.6 04.GN.0342; FSA a.6 04.GN.0511; FSA a.6 04.GN.0518; FSA a.6 04.GN.0514; FSA a.6 04.GN.0515; FSA a.6 04.GN.0519; FSA a.6 04.GN.0520; FSA a.6 04.GN.1168; FSA a.6 04.GN.0563; FSA a.6 04.GN.0564; FSA a.6 04.GN.0566; FSA a.6 04.GN.0857; FSA a.6 04.GN.0261; FSA a.6 04.GN.0262; FSA a.6 04.GN.0340; FSA a.6 04.GN.0341; FSA a.6 04.GN.1088; FSA a.6 04.GN.1087; FSA a.6 04.GN.1090; FSA a.6 04.GN.1089; FSA a.6 04.GN.0293; FSA a.6 04.GN.0590; FSA a.6 04.GN.0560; FSA a.6 04.GN.0584; FSA a.6 04.GN.0813; FSA a.6 04.GN.0578; FSA a.6 04.GN.0816; FSA a.6 04.GN.0573; FSA a.6 04.GN.0562; FSA a.6 04.GN.0801; FSA a.6 04.GN.0802; FSA a.6 04.GN.0803; FSA a.6 04.GN.1032; FSA a.6 04.GN.1034; FSA a.6 04.GN.1035; FSA a.6 04.GN.1094; FSA a.6 04.GN.1145; FSA a.6 04.GN.1030; FSA a.6 04.GN.0805; FSA a.6 04.GN.0806; FSA a.6 04.GN.0807; FSA a.6 04.GN.0808; FSA a.6 04.GN.1096; FSA a.6 04.GN.1147; FSA a.6 04.GN.1154; FSA a.6 04.GN.0872; FSA a.6 04.GN.0809; FSA a.6 04.GN.0810; FSA a.6 04.GN.0811; FSA a.6 04.GN.0812; FSA a.6 04.GN.0814; FSA a.6 04.GN.0815; FSA a.6 04.GN.0817; FSA a.6 04.GN.0818; FSA a.6 04.GN.0819; FSA a.6 04.GN.0820; FSA a.6 04.GN.0821; FSA a.6 04.GN.0836; FSA a.6 04.GN.0837; FSA a.6 04.GN.0838; FSA a.6 04.GN.0839; FSA a.6 04.GN.0840; FSA a.6 04.GN.0841; FSA a.6 04.GN.0842; FSA a.6 04.GN.0843; FSA a.6 04.GN.0844; FSA a.6 04.GN.0845; FSA a.6 04.GN.0846; FSA a.6 04.GN.0847; FSA a.6 04.GN.0848; FSA a.6 04.GN.0849; FSA a.6 04.GN.0850; FSA a.6 04.GN.0851; FSA a.6 04.GN.0852; FSA a.6 04.GN.0853; FSA a.6 04.GN.0854; FSA a.6 04.GN.0855; FSA a.6 04.GN.0856; FSA a.6 04.GN.0858; FSA a.6 04.GN.0859; FSA a.6 04.GN.0873; FSA a.6 04.GN.0874; FSA a.6 04.GN.0875; FSA a.6 04.GN.0876; FSA a.6 04.GN.0877; FSA a.6 04.GN.0878; FSA a.6 04.GN.0879; FSA a.6 04.GN.0880; FSA a.6 04.GN.0881; FSA a.6 04.GN.1036; FSA a.6 04.GN.1093; FSA a.6 04.GN.1146; FSA a.6 04.GN.0291; FSA a.6 04.GN.0339; FSA a.6 04.GN.0343; FSA a.6 04.GN.0346; FSA a.6 04.GN.0546; FSA a.6 04.GN.0547; FSA a.6 04.GN.0548; FSA a.6 04.GN.0549; FSA a.6 04.GN.0551; FSA a.6 04.GN.0553; FSA a.6 04.GN.0556; FSA a.6 04.GN.0559; FSA a.6 04.GN.0568; FSA a.6 04.GN.0569; FSA a.6 04.GN.0570; FSA a.6 04.GN.0571; FSA a.6 04.GN.0572; FSA a.6 04.GN.0574; FSA a.6 04.GN.0575; FSA a.6 04.GN.0576; FSA a.6 04.GN.0577; FSA a.6 04.GN.0579; FSA a.6 04.GN.0580; FSA a.6 04.GN.0581; FSA a.6 04.GN.0582; FSA a.6 04.GN.0583; FSA a.6 04.GN.0585; FSA a.6 04.GN.0586; FSA a.6 04.GN.0587; FSA a.6 04.GN.0588; FSA a.6 04.GN.0589; FSA a.6 04.GN.0882; FSA a.6 04.GN.0883; FSA a.6 04.GN.0884; FSA a.6 04.GN.0885; FSA a.6 04.GN.0886; FSA a.6 04.GN.0887; FSA a.6 04.GN.0888; FSA a.6 04.GN.0889; FSA a.6 04.GN.0893; FSA a.6 04.GN.0894; FSA a.6 04.GN.0895; FSA a.6 04.GN.0896; FSA a.6 04.GN.0897; FSA a.6 04.GN.0898; FSA a.6 04.GN.0899; FSA a.6 04.GN.0900; FSA a.6 04.GN.0901; FSA a.6 04.GN.0902; FSA a.6 04.GN.0903; FSA a.6 04.GN.0904; FSA a.6 04.GN.0905; FSA a.6 04.GN.0906; FSA a.6 04.GN.0907; FSA a.6 04.GN.1097; FSA a.6 04.GN.0591; FSA a.6 04.GN.0344; FSA a.6 04.GN.0345; FSA a.6 04.GN.0348; FSA a.6 04.GN.0367; FSA a.6 04.GN.0545; FSA a.6 04.GN.0550; FSA a.6 04.GN.0552; FSA a.6 04.GN.0554; FSA a.6 04.GN.0555; FSA a.6 04.GN.0558; FSA a.6 04.GN.0561; FSA a.6 04.GN.0774; FSA a.6 04.GN.0775; FSA a.6 04.GN.0776; FSA a.6 04.GN.0779; FSA a.6 04.GN.0798; FSA a.6 04.GN.0777; FSA a.6 04.GN.0347; FSA a.6 04.GN.0349; FSA a.6 04.GN.0350; FSA a.6 04.GN.0778; FSA a.6 04.GN.0780; FSA a.6 04.GN.0781; FSA a.6 04.GN.0782; FSA a.6 04.GN.0783; FSA a.6 04.GN.0784; FSA a.6 04.GN.0785; FSA a.6 04.GN.0799; FSA a.6 04.GN.0800; FSA a.6 04.GN.0804; FSA a.6 04.GN.1033; FSA a.6 04.GN.1092; FSA a.6 04.GN.1095; FSA a.6 04.GN.1037; FSA a.6 04.GN.1026; FSA a.6 04.GN.1027; FSA a.6 04.GN.1028; FSA a.6 04.GN.1029; FSA a.6 04.GN.1031."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Prehistoric Persepolis (Cyanotypes File 4)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 4

FSA A.6 04.CY.04

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.4

See more items in:

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc33a7e3a0f-3c37-4cf9-9ce7-90e3ecd48c8b

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

3 Volumes

1 Volume (354 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Persepolis (Iran)

Date:

1904-1934

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

AHI--Archaeological History of Iran, Herzfeld

AMI--Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Herzfeld

Frye--The Heritage of Iran, R.N.Frye

IAE--Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 5", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 354 photographic prints which may first relate to a visit to Persepolis in November 1905 during his expedition return from the Assur (Kalat Schergat, Iraq) excavation. They may also have been taken during the two last months of 1923 and early March 1924 when Herzfeld spent six weeks on the terrace of Persepolis, drafting a plan and providing a photographic record of the whole structure. More photographs were taken in 1928 when the architect Friedrich Krefter joined Herzfeld in Persia to complete various measured plans and drawings in Persepolis. The expedition was funded by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft. Finally, excavations of the Achaemenid site were begun on March 1, 1931, under the auspices of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, until Ernst Herzfeld left Persepolis permanently in Spring 1934.

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 5" is composed of 354 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.1576; FSA a.6 04.GN.1577; FSA a.6 04.GN.1654; FSA a.6 04.GN.2365; FSA a.6 04.GN.2364; FSA a.6 04.GN.2368; FSA a.6 04.GN.2367; FSA a.6 04.GN.2253; FSA a.6 04.GN.2254; FSA a.6 04.GN.2255; FSA a.6 04.GN.2256; FSA a.6 04.GN.2257; FSA a.6 04.GN.2258; FSA a.6 04.GN.2259; FSA a.6 04.GN.2261; FSA a.6 04.GN.2260; FSA a.6 04.GN.2283; FSA a.6 04.GN.2284; FSA a.6 04.GN.2285; FSA a.6 04.GN.2262; FSA a.6 04.GN.2281; FSA a.6 04.GN.2269; FSA a.6 04.GN.2270; FSA a.6 04.GN.2265; FSA a.6 04.GN.2266; FSA a.6 04.GN.2267; FSA a.6 04.GN.1579; FSA a.6 04.GN.0401; FSA a.6 04.GN.0403; FSA a.6 04.GN.1162; FSA a.6 04.GN.1580; FSA a.6 04.GN.1581; FSA a.6 04.GN.1578; FSA a.6 04.GN.2268; FSA a.6 04.GN.1572; FSA a.6 04.GN.1574; FSA a.6 04.GN.2272; FSA a.6 04.GN.2271; FSA a.6 04.GN.2274; FSA a.6 04.GN.2273; FSA a.6 04.GN.2275; FSA a.6 04.GN.2276; FSA a.6 04.GN.2277; FSA a.6 04.GN.2278; FSA a.6 04.GN.2279; FSA a.6 04.GN.2280; FSA a.6 04.GN.1573; FSA a.6 04.GN.2286; FSA a.6 04.GN.1582; FSA a.6 04.GN.2299; FSA a.6 04.GN.1583; FSA a.6 04.GN.1585; FSA a.6 04.GN.2289; FSA a.6 04.GN.2287; FSA a.6 04.GN.2288; FSA a.6 04.GN.0408; FSA a.6 04.GN.0406; FSA a.6 04.GN.1584; FSA a.6 04.GN.2294; FSA a.6 04.GN.2293; FSA a.6 04.GN.2290; FSA a.6 04.GN.2291; FSA a.6 04.GN.2295; FSA a.6 04.GN.2296; FSA a.6 04.GN.2297; FSA a.6 04.GN.2292; FSA a.6 04.GN.2298; FSA a.6 04.GN.1566; FSA a.6 04.GN.0274; FSA a.6 04.GN.0270; FSA a.6 04.GN.1590; FSA a.6 04.GN.1592; FSA a.6 04.GN.1003; FSA a.6 04.GN.1591; FSA a.6 04.GN.0266; FSA a.6 04.GN.1594; FSA a.6 04.GN.0273; FSA a.6 04.GN.0271; FSA a.6 04.GN.1588; FSA a.6 04.GN.1596; FSA a.6 04.GN.1605; FSA a.6 04.GN.1604; FSA a.6 04.GN.1608; FSA a.6 04.GN.1606; FSA a.6 04.GN.0993; FSA a.6 04.GN.1593; FSA a.6 04.GN.0996; FSA a.6 04.GN.1589; FSA a.6 04.GN.1597; FSA a.6 04.GN.1598; FSA a.6 04.GN.1603; FSA a.6 04.GN.0998; FSA a.6 04.GN.1156; FSA a.6 04.GN.1602; FSA a.6 04.GN.1609; FSA a.6 04.GN.0994; FSA a.6 04.GN.0968; FSA a.6 04.GN.0995; FSA a.6 04.GN.1587; FSA a.6 04.GN.1595; FSA a.6 04.GN.1599; FSA a.6 04.GN.1600; FSA a.6 04.GN.1607; FSA a.6 04.GN.0991; FSA a.6 04.GN.0967; FSA a.6 04.GN.1164; FSA a.6 04.GN.1601; FSA a.6 04.GN.0992; FSA a.6 04.GN.0267; FSA a.6 04.GN.1571; FSA a.6 04.GN.1612; FSA a.6 04.GN.1616; FSA a.6 04.GN.1614; FSA a.6 04.GN.1615; FSA a.6 04.GN.1611; FSA a.6 04.GN.1610; FSA a.6 04.GN.1613; FSA a.6 04.GN.2300; FSA a.6 04.GN.2301; FSA a.6 04.GN.2301; FSA a.6 04.GN.2302; FSA a.6 04.GN.2303; FSA a.6 04.GN.1621; FSA a.6 04.GN.1622; FSA a.6 04.GN.0259; FSA a.6 04.GN.1618; FSA a.6 04.GN.1625; FSA a.6 04.GN.1623; FSA a.6 04.GN.2310; FSA a.6 04.GN.2311; FSA a.6 04.GN.1617; FSA a.6 04.GN.1624; FSA a.6 04.GN.1620; FSA a.6 04.GN.1619; FSA a.6 04.GN.0986; FSA a.6 04.GN.0407; FSA a.6 04.GN.1165; FSA a.6 04.GN.2304; FSA a.6 04.GN.2305; FSA a.6 04.GN.2306; FSA a.6 04.GN.2307; FSA a.6 04.GN.2308; FSA a.6 04.GN.2309; FSA a.6 04.GN.2312; FSA a.6 04.GN.2313; FSA a.6 04.GN.2314; FSA a.6 04.GN.2315; FSA a.6 04.GN.2316; FSA a.6 04.GN.2317; FSA a.6 04.GN.2362; FSA a.6 04.GN.2363; FSA a.6 04.GN.2357; FSA a.6 04.GN.2358; FSA a.6 04.GN.2359; FSA a.6 04.GN.2361; FSA a.6 04.GN.2360; FSA a.6 04.GN.5083; FSA a.6 04.GN.2356; FSA a.6 04.GN.2354; FSA a.6 04.GN.2355; FSA a.6 04.GN.2349; FSA a.6 04.GN.2352; FSA a.6 04.GN.2351; FSA a.6 04.GN.2350; FSA a.6 04.GN.1627; FSA a.6 04.GN.1626; FSA a.6 04.GN.1628; FSA a.6 04.GN.2348; FSA a.6 04.GN.1629; FSA a.6 04.GN.1630; FSA a.6 04.GN.1631; FSA a.6 04.GN.1632; FSA a.6 04.GN.1633; FSA a.6 04.GN.1635; FSA a.6 04.GN.0963; FSA a.6 04.GN.0962; FSA a.6 04.GN.1637; FSA a.6 04.GN.0404; FSA a.6 04.GN.1636; FSA a.6 04.GN.0404; FSA a.6 04.GN.1636; FSA a.6 04.GN.1634; FSA a.6 04.GN.1186; FSA a.6 04.GN.1638; FSA a.6 04.GN.1646; FSA a.6 04.GN.2341; FSA a.6 04.GN.2345; FSA a.6 04.GN.1639; FSA a.6 04.GN.1640; FSA a.6 04.GN.2346; FSA a.6 04.GN.1641; FSA a.6 04.GN.0983; FSA a.6 04.GN.0999; FSA a.6 04.GN.1644; FSA a.6 04.GN.1645; FSA a.6 04.GN.1642; FSA a.6 04.GN.1643; FSA a.6 04.GN.2347; FSA a.6 04.GN.1681; FSA a.6 04.GN.0258; FSA a.6 04.GN.2328; FSA a.6 04.GN.2326; FSA a.6 04.GN.2325; FSA a.6 04.GN.2327; FSA a.6 04.GN.1683; FSA a.6 04.GN.1684; FSA a.6 04.GN.1685; FSA a.6 04.GN.1688; FSA a.6 04.GN.1686; FSA a.6 04.GN.1687; FSA a.6 04.GN.1690; FSA a.6 04.GN.1689; FSA a.6 04.GN.1692; FSA a.6 04.GN.1691; FSA a.6 04.GN.1682; FSA a.6 04.GN.2324; FSA a.6 04.GN.1677; FSA a.6 04.GN.1191; FSA a.6 04.GN.1001; FSA a.6 04.GN.0260; FSA a.6 04.GN.1666; FSA a.6 04.GN.1675; FSA a.6 04.GN.1676; FSA a.6 04.GN.2331; FSA a.6 04.GN.1678; FSA a.6 04.GN.1679; FSA a.6 04.GN.1680; FSA a.6 04.GN.2329; FSA a.6 04.GN.0405; FSA a.6 04.GN.0263; FSA a.6 04.GN.0400; FSA a.6 04.GN.2330; FSA a.6 04.GN.2323; FSA a.6 04.GN.1000; FSA a.6 04.GN.1664; FSA a.6 04.GN.1665; FSA a.6 04.GN.1669; FSA a.6 04.GN.1670; FSA a.6 04.GN.2332; FSA a.6 04.GN.1671; FSA a.6 04.GN.1673; FSA a.6 04.GN.1674; FSA a.6 04.GN.1672; FSA a.6 04.GN.1002; FSA a.6 04.GN.1667; FSA a.6 04.GN.1668; FSA a.6 04.GN.1650; FSA a.6 04.GN.1649; FSA a.6 04.GN.2342; FSA a.6 04.GN.1651; FSA a.6 04.GN.2340; FSA a.6 04.GN.2341; FSA a.6 04.GN.1652; FSA a.6 04.GN.2336; FSA a.6 04.GN.1656; FSA a.6 04.GN.1657; FSA a.6 04.GN.1655; FSA a.6 04.GN.1653; FSA a.6 04.GN.1659; FSA a.6 04.GN.0984; FSA a.6 04.GN.0402; FSA a.6 04.GN.1597; FSA a.6 04.GN.1598; FSA a.6 04.GN.1603; FSA a.6 04.GN.0998; FSA a.6 04.GN.1156; FSA a.6 04.GN.1602; FSA a.6 04.GN.1609; FSA a.6 04.GN.0994; FSA a.6 04.GN.0968; FSA a.6 04.GN.0995; FSA a.6 04.GN.1587; FSA a.6 04.GN.2333; FSA a.6 04.GN.1663; FSA a.6 04.GN.1662; FSA a.6 04.GN.1661; FSA a.6 04.GN.1660; FSA a.6 04.GN.1658; FSA a.6 04.GN.2335; FSA a.6 04.GN.2338; FSA a.6 04.GN.2334; FSA a.6 04.GN.2337; FSA a.6 04.GN.2339; FSA a.6 04.GN.2343; FSA a.6 04.GN.2263; FSA a.6 04.GN.2264; FSA a.6 04.GN.2282; FSA a.6 04.GN.1647; FSA a.6 04.GN.1648; FSA a.6 04.GN.2750; FSA a.6 04.GN.2747; FSA a.6 04.GN.2743; FSA a.6 04.GN.2739; FSA a.6 04.GN.2746; FSA a.6 04.GN.2748; FSA a.6 04.GN.2741; FSA a.6 04.GN.2749; FSA a.6 04.GN.2740; FSA a.6 04.GN.1575; FSA a.6 04.GN.2318; FSA a.6 04.GN.1693; FSA a.6 04.GN.1695; FSA a.6 04.GN.1696; FSA a.6 04.GN.1694; FSA a.6 04.GN.2319; FSA a.6 04.GN.1697; FSA a.6 04.GN.1698; FSA a.6 04.GN.1700; FSA a.6 04.GN.1699; FSA a.6 04.GN.1701; FSA a.6 04.GN.1702; FSA a.6 04.GN.1704; FSA a.6 04.GN.2366; FSA a.6 04.GN.1703; FSA a.6 04.GN.2320; FSA a.6 04.GN.2321; FSA a.6 04.GN.2322; FSA a.6 04.GN.0335; FSA a.6 04.GN.0336; FSA a.6 04.GN.0337; FSA a.6 04.GN.0338; FSA a.6 04.GN.0989; FSA a.6 04.GN.0987; FSA a.6 04.GN.0990; FSA a.6 04.GN.1552; FSA a.6 04.GN.1555; FSA a.6 04.GN.1554; FSA a.6 04.GN.2231; FSA a.6 04.GN.2232; FSA a.6 04.GN.1553; FSA a.6 04.GN.2218; FSA a.6 04.GN.2219; FSA a.6 04.GN.2221; FSA a.6 04.GN.2220; FSA a.6 04.GN.2222; FSA a.6 04.GN.2224; FSA a.6 04.GN.2236; FSA a.6 04.GN.2235; FSA a.6 04.GN.2234; FSA a.6 04.GN.2237; FSA a.6 04.GN.1570; FSA a.6 04.GN.0269; FSA a.6 04.GN.1569; FSA a.6 04.GN.2238; FSA a.6 04.GN.2239; FSA a.6 04.GN.1559; FSA a.6 04.GN.1558; FSA a.6 04.GN.1189; FSA a.6 04.GN.1561; FSA a.6 04.GN.1560; FSA a.6 04.GN.1562; FSA a.6 04.GN.1563; FSA a.6 04.GN.2244; FSA a.6 04.GN.2246; FSA a.6 04.GN.0264; FSA a.6 04.GN.2247; FSA a.6 04.GN.2248."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Persepolis (Cyanotypes File 5)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 5

FSA A.6 04.CY.05

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Relief (Sculpture)  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.5

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc30a920c78-5ae8-4319-aba6-b0f586703533

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (244 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Fīrūzābād (Iran)

Date:

1904-1934

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in the captions of published photos are:

AHI - Archaeological History of Iran, Herzfeld

IAE - Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

Reference should also be made to Photo File 25, "Sasanidischer Bauten", and to Photo Files 17 and 29, which deal specifically with Kūh-i Khwāja.

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 7", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 244 photographic prints which relate to field study of the Seleucid temple at Khurha (Iran), the Seleucid temple of Anahita at Kangavar (Iran), Asadabad (Iran), the rock-cut tombs on the Island of Kharg (Iran), the remains of Abaqa Khan palace at Takht-i Rustam in Shahriyar district, the medieval mosque of Istakhr (Iran), a burial Site with astudans at Shah Ismael, in the vicinity of Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran), the Sasanian palace of Sarvistan at Taq i Girra (Iran), the fortified Sasanian settlement at Qasr-i Abu Nasr (Iran), the great arch of Ctesiphon at Taq-i Kisra (Iraq), the Sasanian palace of Khosrow II Parvez at Qasr-i Shirin (Iran), the ruins of Zindan at Dastagerd (Iran), the Qal'a-ye Dokhtar and the palace of Ardashir at Firuzabad (Iran); the ruins of Mil-i Azhdaha tower at Nurabad (Iran), Bishapur (Iran), Farrashband (Iran), the remains of a chahar taq in the vicinity of Firuzabad (Iran), Paqaleh (Iran), the remains of an unidentified fortress in Kerman province (Iran), Sistan (Iran), the ruins of Ghaga-Shahr, of two fortified structures called Chehel Dokhtaran and Kok-e Zal at Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran.

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 7" is composed of 244 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.2382; FSA a.6 04.GN.2381; FSA a.6 04.GN.2383; FSA a.6 04.GN.2384; FSA a.6 04.GN.2385; FSA a.6 04.GN.2387; FSA a.6 04.GN.2386; FSA a.6 04.GN.2388; FSA a.6 04.GN.2389; FSA a.6 04.GN.2390; FSA a.6 04.GN.1713; FSA a.6 04.GN.1714; FSA a.6 04.GN.1715; FSA a.6 04.GN.1716; FSA a.6 04.GN.2392; FSA a.6 04.GN.2391; FSA a.6 04.GN.1717; FSA a.6 04.GN.1718; FSA a.6 04.GN.1719; FSA a.6 04.GN.1720; FSA a.6 04.GN.2393; FSA a.6 04.GN.2394; FSA a.6 04.GN.2395; FSA a.6 04.GN.1721; FSA a.6 04.GN.2380; FSA a.6 04.GN.1711; FSA a.6 04.GN.1712; FSA a.6 04.GN.1710; FSA a.6 04.GN.0928; FSA a.6 04.GN.2369; FSA a.6 04.GN.2372; FSA a.6 04.GN.2373; FSA a.6 04.GN.2374; FSA a.6 04.GN.2375; FSA a.6 04.GN.2376; FSA a.6 04.GN.2377; FSA a.6 04.GN.2370; FSA a.6 04.GN.2371; FSA a.6 04.GN.2378; FSA a.6 04.GN.2379; FSA a.6 04.GN.1737; FSA a.6 04.GN.1737a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2396a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2396; FSA a.6 04.GN.2397; FSA a.6 04.GN.2398; FSA a.6 04.GN.2399; FSA a.6 04.GN.1723; FSA a.6 04.GN.1722; FSA a.6 04.GN.1724; FSA a.6 04.GN.1725; FSA a.6 04.GN.1726; FSA a.6 04.GN.1727; FSA a.6 04.GN.1730; FSA a.6 04.GN.1728; FSA a.6 04.GN.1729; FSA a.6 04.GN.1733; FSA a.6 04.GN.1734; FSA a.6 04.GN.1731; FSA a.6 04.GN.1732; FSA a.6 04.GN.1735; FSA a.6 04.GN.1736; FSA a.6 04.GN.2404; FSA a.6 04.GN.2405; FSA a.6 04.GN.1745; FSA a.6 04.GN.2406; FSA a.6 04.GN.2407; FSA a.6 04.GN.2408; FSA a.6 04.GN.2409; FSA a.6 04.GN.2410; FSA a.6 04.GN.2411; FSA a.6 04.GN.2412; FSA a.6 04.GN.2413; FSA a.6 04.GN.2414; FSA a.6 04.GN.2416; FSA a.6 04.GN.2415; FSA a.6 04.GN.1746; FSA a.6 04.GN.2417; FSA a.6 04.GN.2418; FSA a.6 04.GN.2423; FSA a.6 04.GN.2421; FSA a.6 04.GN.2422; FSA a.6 04.GN.2420; FSA a.6 04.GN.2419; FSA a.6 04.GN.1743; FSA a.6 04.GN.2424; FSA a.6 04.GN.1744; FSA a.6 04.GN.1201; FSA a.6 04.GN.1739; FSA a.6 04.GN.1740; FSA a.6 04.GN.1741; FSA a.6 04.GN.1742; FSA a.6 04.GN.1738; FSA a.6 04.GN.1747; FSA a.6 04.GN.1748; FSA a.6 04.GN.1751; FSA a.6 04.GN.1749; FSA a.6 04.GN.1750; FSA a.6 04.GN.1752; FSA a.6 04.GN.1753; FSA a.6 04.GN.1754; FSA a.6 04.GN.1755; FSA a.6 04.GN.2425; FSA a.6 04.GN.2426; FSA a.6 04.GN.2427; FSA a.6 04.GN.2428; FSA a.6 04.GN.2429; FSA a.6 04.GN.2430; FSA a.6 04.GN.2431; FSA a.6 04.GN.2432; FSA a.6 04.GN.2433; FSA a.6 04.GN.2434; FSA a.6 04.GN.2435; FSA a.6 04.GN.2436; FSA a.6 04.GN.2437; FSA a.6 04.GN.2438; FSA a.6 04.GN.2439; FSA a.6 04.GN.2440; FSA a.6 04.GN.2441; FSA a.6 04.GN.2442; FSA a.6 04.GN.2443; FSA a.6 04.GN.2444; FSA a.6 04.GN.2445; FSA a.6 04.GN.2446; FSA a.6 04.GN.2447; FSA a.6 04.GN.2448; FSA a.6 04.GN.2449; FSA a.6 04.GN.2450; FSA a.6 04.GN.2451; FSA a.6 04.GN.2452; FSA a.6 04.GN.2453; FSA a.6 04.GN.3178; FSA a.6 04.GN.3175; FSA a.6 04.GN.2454; FSA a.6 04.GN.2455; FSA a.6 04.GN.2456; FSA a.6 04.GN.2466; FSA a.6 04.GN.2457; FSA a.6 04.GN.2458; FSA a.6 04.GN.2459; FSA a.6 04.GN.2460; FSA a.6 04.GN.2461; FSA a.6 04.GN.1756; FSA a.6 04.GN.1757; FSA a.6 04.GN.1758; FSA a.6 04.GN.1759; FSA a.6 04.GN.2034; FSA a.6 04.GN.2035; FSA a.6 04.GN.2037; FSA a.6 04.GN.2039; FSA a.6 04.GN.2036; FSA a.6 04.GN.2038; FSA a.6 04.GN.2029; FSA a.6 04.GN.2030; FSA a.6 04.GN.2033; FSA a.6 04.GN.2031; FSA a.6 04.GN.2032; FSA a.6 04.GN.0432; FSA a.6 04.GN.1004; FSA a.6 04.GN.1005; FSA a.6 04.GN.1022; FSA a.6 04.GN.2045; FSA a.6 04.GN.2046; FSA a.6 04.GN.2041; FSA a.6 04.GN.2040; FSA a.6 04.GN.2042; FSA a.6 04.GN.2044; FSA a.6 04.GN.2043; FSA a.6 04.GN.2047; FSA a.6 04.GN.2048; FSA a.6 04.GN.2049; FSA a.6 04.GN.2051; FSA a.6 04.GN.2050; FSA a.6 04.GN.2052; FSA a.6 04.GN.2053; FSA a.6 04.GN.2054; FSA a.6 04.GN.2055; FSA a.6 04.GN.2056; FSA a.6 04.GN.2057; FSA a.6 04.GN.2059; FSA a.6 04.GN.2058; FSA a.6 04.GN.2060; FSA a.6 04.GN.2061; FSA a.6 04.GN.2063; FSA a.6 04.GN.2064; FSA a.6 04.GN.2065; FSA a.6 04.GN.2066; FSA a.6 04.GN.2067; FSA a.6 04.GN.2068; FSA a.6 04.GN.2069; FSA a.6 04.GN.2070; FSA a.6 04.GN.2071; FSA a.6 04.GN.2073; FSA a.6 04.GN.2074; FSA a.6 04.GN.2072; FSA a.6 04.GN.2076; FSA a.6 04.GN.2077; FSA a.6 04.GN.2078; FSA a.6 04.GN.2075; FSA a.6 04.GN.2079; FSA a.6 04.GN.2080; FSA a.6 04.GN.2081; FSA a.6 04.GN.2082; FSA a.6 04.GN.0966; FSA a.6 04.GN.1158; FSA a.6 04.GN.1172; FSA a.6 04.GN.1173; FSA a.6 04.GN.0179; FSA a.6 04.GN.2083; FSA a.6 04.GN.2084; FSA a.6 04.GN.2085; FSA a.6 04.GN.2087; FSA a.6 04.GN.2088; FSA a.6 04.GN.2086; FSA a.6 04.GN.2100; FSA a.6 04.GN.2089; FSA a.6 04.GN.2090; FSA a.6 04.GN.2091; FSA a.6 04.GN.2092; FSA a.6 04.GN.2093; FSA a.6 04.GN.2094; FSA a.6 04.GN.2095; FSA a.6 04.GN.2096; FSA a.6 04.GN.2097; FSA a.6 04.GN.2098; FSA a.6 04.GN.2099; FSA a.6 04.GN.2101; FSA a.6 04.GN.2062; FSA a.6 04.GN.2102; FSA a.6 04.GN.2103; FSA a.6 04.GN.2104; FSA a.6 04.GN.2105; FSA a.6 04.GN.2106; FSA a.6 04.GN.2107; FSA a.6 04.GN.1116; FSA a.6 04.GN.1111; FSA a.6 04.GN.1112; FSA a.6 04.GN.1113; FSA a.6 04.GN.1114; FSA a.6 04.GN.1115; FSA a.6 04.GN.1102; FSA a.6 04.GN.3943."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Sassanid Architecture (Cyanotypes File 7)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 7

FSA A.6 04.CY.07

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Sassanids  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.7

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (298 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Bīshāpūr (Extinct city)

Bisutun Site (Iran)

Fīrūzābād (Iran)

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran)

Persepolis (Iran)

Taq-e Bostan Site (Iran)

Date:

1904-1934

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

AHI--Archaeological History of Iran, Herzfeld

AMI--Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Herzfeld

Frye--The Heritage of Iran, R.N.Frye

IAE--Iran in the Ancient East, Herzfeld

SR--Revue des Arts Asiatiques, Vol.5, 1928. No.III. "La Sculpture rupestre de la Perse sassanide," Herzfeld

TA--Am Tor von Asien, Herzfeld

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 8", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 298 photographic prints which relate to field studies of Sasanian monuments at Hatra (Iraq), Taq-i Bustan (Iran), Hamadan (Iran), Persepolis (Iran), Bisutun Site (Iran), Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran), Sarpul (Iran), Firuzabad (Iran), Naqsh-i Rajab (Iran), Bishapur (Iran), Naqsh-i Bahram (Iran), Sar Mashhad (Iran), Barm-i Dilak (Iran), Guyum (Iran); Kaleh-i Kuhna (Iran), Isfahan (Iran), Nizamabad (Iran), and Kuh-e Khwaja (Iran).

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 8" is composed of 298 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.1901; FSA a.6 04.GN.1902; FSA a.6 04.GN.1906; FSA a.6 04.GN.1906a; FSA a.6 04.GN.1705; FSA a.6 04.GN.1706; FSA a.6 04.GN.1707; FSA a.6 04.GN.1709; FSA a.6 04.GN.1708; FSA a.6 04.GN.1905; FSA a.6 04.GN.0926; FSA a.6 04.GN.1903; FSA a.6 04.GN.1904; FSA a.6 04.GN.2492; FSA a.6 04.GN.2493; FSA a.6 04.GN.2494; FSA a.6 04.GN.2495; FSA a.6 04.GN.2126; FSA a.6 04.GN.1908; FSA a.6 04.GN.1909; FSA a.6 04.GN.1910; FSA a.6 04.GN.1911; FSA a.6 04.GN.1907; FSA a.6 04.GN.1912; FSA a.6 04.GN.1913; FSA a.6 04.GN.1765; FSA a.6 04.GN.1761; FSA a.6 04.GN.1762; FSA a.6 04.GN.1763; FSA a.6 04.GN.2785; FSA a.6 04.GN.1764; FSA a.6 04.GN.1760; FSA a.6 04.GN.2781; FSA a.6 04.GN.1766; FSA a.6 04.GN.1767; FSA a.6 04.GN.2778; FSA a.6 04.GN.2745; FSA a.6 04.GN.1768; FSA a.6 04.GN.1769; FSA a.6 04.GN.1770; FSA a.6 04.GN.2742; FSA a.6 04.GN.1771; FSA a.6 04.GN.1772; FSA a.6 04.GN.2784; FSA a.6 04.GN.0167; FSA a.6 04.GN.2462; FSA a.6 04.GN.2463; FSA a.6 04.GN.2464; FSA a.6 04.GN.2466a; FSA a.6 04.GN.0485; FSA a.6 04.GN.2800; FSA a.6 04.GN.1773; FSA a.6 04.GN.1776; FSA a.6 04.GN.1774; FSA a.6 04.GN.1777; FSA a.6 04.GN.3203; FSA a.6 04.GN.3202; FSA a.6 04.GN.1775; FSA a.6 04.GN.2779; FSA a.6 04.GN.1778; FSA a.6 04.GN.1779; FSA a.6 04.GN.0433; FSA a.6 04.GN.2799; FSA a.6 04.GN.2467; FSA a.6 04.GN.2465; FSA a.6 04.GN.0170; FSA a.6 04.GN.2496; FSA a.6 04.GN.1780; FSA a.6 04.GN.2789; FSA a.6 04.GN.2468; FSA a.6 04.GN.2790; FSA a.6 04.GN.1781; FSA a.6 04.GN.1782; FSA a.6 04.GN.2469; FSA a.6 04.GN.3176; FSA a.6 04.GN.2792; FSA a.6 04.GN.1790; FSA a.6 04.GN.1791; FSA a.6 04.GN.1792; FSA a.6 04.GN.1793; FSA a.6 04.GN.1794; FSA a.6 04.GN.2470; FSA a.6 04.GN.2797; FSA a.6 04.GN.1795; FSA a.6 04.GN.1796; FSA a.6 04.GN.1798; FSA a.6 04.GN.1797; FSA a.6 04.GN.1799; FSA a.6 04.GN.2471; FSA a.6 04.GN.1805; FSA a.6 04.GN.1808; FSA a.6 04.GN.1809; FSA a.6 04.GN.1807; FSA a.6 04.GN.1806; FSA a.6 04.GN.1800; FSA a.6 04.GN.2796; FSA a.6 04.GN.1802; FSA a.6 04.GN.1803; FSA a.6 04.GN.1804; FSA a.6 04.GN.1801; FSA a.6 04.GN.1810; FSA a.6 04.GN.3162; FSA a.6 04.GN.2798; FSA a.6 04.GN.2472; FSA a.6 04.GN.2473; FSA a.6 04.GN.2474; FSA a.6 04.GN.2475; FSA a.6 04.GN.2788; FSA a.6 04.GN.1812; FSA a.6 04.GN.1811; FSA a.6 04.GN.2478; FSA a.6 04.GN.3177; FSA a.6 04.GN.2787; FSA a.6 04.GN.2477; FSA a.6 04.GN.2479; FSA a.6 04.GN.0430; FSA a.6 04.GN.0425; FSA a.6 04.GN.2476; FSA a.6 04.GN.3179; FSA a.6 04.GN.2777; FSA a.6 04.GN.1816; FSA a.6 04.GN.1815; FSA a.6 04.GN.1814; FSA a.6 04.GN.2485; FSA a.6 04.GN.0169; FSA a.6 04.GN.0171; FSA a.6 04.GN.2780; FSA a.6 04.GN.2487; FSA a.6 04.GN.1817; FSA a.6 04.GN.1819; FSA a.6 04.GN.2489; FSA a.6 04.GN.2488; FSA a.6 04.GN.2486; FSA a.6 04.GN.2786; FSA a.6 04.GN.2480; FSA a.6 04.GN.2481; FSA a.6 04.GN.2482; FSA a.6 04.GN.2483; FSA a.6 04.GN.1813; FSA a.6 04.GN.0428; FSA a.6 04.GN.0427; FSA a.6 04.GN.2484; FSA a.6 04.GN.0334; FSA a.6 04.GN.0965; FSA a.6 04.GN.0434; FSA a.6 04.GN.0424; FSA a.6 04.GN.2490; FSA a.6 04.GN.2491; FSA a.6 04.GN.0429; FSA a.6 04.GN.2801; FSA a.6 04.GN.0168; FSA a.6 04.GN.1822; FSA a.6 04.GN.1821; FSA a.6 04.GN.1820; FSA a.6 04.GN.2400; FSA a.6 04.GN.2401; FSA a.6 04.GN.2402; FSA a.6 04.GN.2403; FSA a.6 04.GN.1826; FSA a.6 04.GN.1826; FSA a.6 04.GN.0163; FSA a.6 04.GN.1825; FSA a.6 04.GN.2776; FSA a.6 04.GN.1823; FSA a.6 04.GN.1824; FSA a.6 04.GN.2782; FSA a.6 04.GN.0172; FSA a.6 04.GN.2814; FSA a.6 04.GN.2761; FSA a.6 04.GN.1827; FSA a.6 04.GN.1219; FSA a.6 04.GN.1828; FSA a.6 04.GN.1829; FSA a.6 04.GN.1830; FSA a.6 04.GN.1831; FSA a.6 04.GN.1832; FSA a.6 04.GN.1221; FSA a.6 04.GN.1150; FSA a.6 04.GN.1834; FSA a.6 04.GN.2783; FSA a.6 04.GN.1835; FSA a.6 04.GN.1220; FSA a.6 04.GN.1836; FSA a.6 04.GN.1833; FSA a.6 04.GN.1839; FSA a.6 04.GN.1838; FSA a.6 04.GN.2791; FSA a.6 04.GN.1837; FSA a.6 04.GN.1840; FSA a.6 04.GN.1841; FSA a.6 04.GN.1842; FSA a.6 04.GN.1843; FSA a.6 04.GN.1844; FSA a.6 04.GN.1845; FSA a.6 04.GN.1846; FSA a.6 04.GN.1847; FSA a.6 04.GN.1849; FSA a.6 04.GN.0165; FSA a.6 04.GN.2795; FSA a.6 04.GN.1848; FSA a.6 04.GN.1850; FSA a.6 04.GN.1851; FSA a.6 04.GN.1853; FSA a.6 04.GN.1857; FSA a.6 04.GN.2819; FSA a.6 04.GN.1855; FSA a.6 04.GN.2820; FSA a.6 04.GN.2821; FSA a.6 04.GN.1854; FSA a.6 04.GN.1856; FSA a.6 04.GN.1858; FSA a.6 04.GN.1859; FSA a.6 04.GN.1860; FSA a.6 04.GN.2822; FSA a.6 04.GN.2817; FSA a.6 04.GN.1862; FSA a.6 04.GN.1862a; FSA a.6 04.GN.1861; FSA a.6 04.GN.2823; FSA a.6 04.GN.1865; FSA a.6 04.GN.1866; FSA a.6 04.GN.1867; FSA a.6 04.GN.1217; FSA a.6 04.GN.1868; FSA a.6 04.GN.2858; FSA a.6 04.GN.1869; FSA a.6 04.GN.1875; FSA a.6 04.GN.1876; FSA a.6 04.GN.1876a; FSA a.6 04.GN.1877; FSA a.6 04.GN.2859; FSA a.6 04.GN.1879; FSA a.6 04.GN.1870; FSA a.6 04.GN.1874; FSA a.6 04.GN.1874a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2803; FSA a.6 04.GN.2802; FSA a.6 04.GN.2793; FSA a.6 04.GN.1872; FSA a.6 04.GN.1873; FSA a.6 04.GN.1864; FSA a.6 04.GN1863; FSA a.6 04.GN.1879; FSA a.6 04.GN.1218; FSA a.6 04.GN.2818; FSA a.6 04.GN.0162; FSA a.6 04.GN.1881; FSA a.6 04.GN.1880; FSA a.6 04.GN.1883; FSA a.6 04.GN.1878; FSA a.6 04.GN.1882; FSA a.6 04.GN.2794; FSA a.6 04.GN.1852; FSA a.6 04.GN.1887; FSA a.6 04.GN.1886; FSA a.6 04.GN.1889; FSA a.6 04.GN.1884; FSA a.6 04.GN.1388; FSA a.6 04.GN.1891; FSA a.6 04.GN.1890; FSA a.6 04.GN.1892; FSA a.6 04.GN.1893; FSA a.6 04.GN.1894; FSA a.6 04.GN.1895; FSA a.6 04.GN.1885; FSA a.6 04.GN.0929; FSA a.6 04.GN.1899; FSA a.6 04.GN.1900; FSA a.6 04.GN.1898; FSA a.6 04.GN.1896; FSA a.6 04.GN.1897; FSA a.6 04.GN.0166; FSA a.6 04.GN.1151; FSA a.6 04.GN.2147; FSA a.6 04.GN.2162; FSA a.6 04.GN.2163; FSA a.6 04.GN.2158; FSA a.6 04.GN.2160; FSA a.6 04.GN.2161; FSA a.6 04.GN.4509; FSA a.6 04.GN.2157; FSA a.6 04.GN.2159; FSA a.6 04.GN.2148; FSA a.6 04.GN.2150; FSA a.6 04.GN.2155a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2155; FSA a.6 04.GN.2154; FSA a.6 04.GN.2149; FSA a.6 04.GN.2153; FSA a.6 04.GN.2151; FSA a.6 04.GN.2152."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Sassanid Monuments (Cyanotypes File 8)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 8

FSA A.6 04.CY.08

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Animals in art  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

headgear  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Relief (Sculpture)  Search this

Royalty (Nobility)  Search this

Sassanids  Search this

Textile design  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.8

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Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files

Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

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EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (324 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Dāmghān (Iran)

Tehran (Iran)

Ṭūs (Iran)

Date:

1904-1934

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

AMI --Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, Herzfeld

SA-II --Ars Islamica, X (1943), "Damascus: Studies in Architecture, II...," Herzfeld

SPA --Survey of Persian Art (A.U.Pope, ed.)

ZDMG --Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländlishen Gesellschaft. Neue Folge V (Leipzig, 1926). Herzfeld's Reisebericht

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 10", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 324 photographic prints which relate to to Herzfeld house in Tehran (Iran), the Summer house of the German legation at Shimran (Iran), and to mountain expeditions in Kurdistan (Iran) and Khorasan (Iran), as well as field studies of various architectural buildings and archaeological remains at Damghan (Iran), Bistam (Iran), Radkan (Iran), Sabzavar (Iran), Khusrawgird (Iran), Nishapur (Iran), Tus (Iran), Sangbast (Iran), and Khargird (Iran).

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 10" is composed of 324 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.3018; FSA a.6 04.GN.2737; FSA a.6 04.GN.3047; FSA a.6 04.GN.3046; FSA a.6 04.GN.3044; FSA a.6 04.GN.3043; FSA a.6 04.GN.3042; FSA a.6 04.GN.3045; FSA a.6 04.GN.3041; FSA a.6 04.GN.3030; FSA a.6 04.GN.3029; FSA a.6 04.GN.3031; FSA a.6 04.GN.3035; FSA a.6 04.GN.3033; FSA a.6 04.GN.3032; FSA a.6 04.GN.3034; FSA a.6 04.GN.3036; FSA a.6 04.GN.3038; FSA a.6 04.GN.3039; FSA a.6 04.GN.3037; FSA a.6 04.GN.3040; FSA a.6 04.GN.3027; FSA a.6 04.GN.3026; FSA a.6 04.GN.3025; FSA a.6 04.GN.3024; FSA a.6 04.GN.3023; FSA a.6 04.GN.3028; FSA a.6 04.GN.3020; FSA a.6 04.GN.3021; FSA a.6 04.GN.3019; FSA a.6 04.GN.3022; FSA a.6 04.GN.3048; FSA a.6 04.GN.3049; FSA a.6 04.GN.3050; FSA a.6 04.GN.3051; FSA a.6 04.GN.2946; FSA a.6 04.GN.2948; FSA a.6 04.GN.2947; FSA a.6 04.GN.2949; FSA a.6 04.GN.2951; FSA a.6 04.GN.2950; FSA a.6 04.GN.3002; FSA a.6 04.GN.2945; FSA a.6 04.GN.3003; FSA a.6 04.GN.3004; FSA a.6 04.GN.2937; FSA a.6 04.GN.2938; FSA a.6 04.GN.2939; FSA a.6 04.GN.2940; FSA a.6 04.GN.2941; FSA a.6 04.GN.2942; FSA a.6 04.GN.2946; FSA a.6 04.GN.2936; FSA a.6 04.GN.2932; FSA a.6 04.GN.2934; FSA a.6 04.GN.2933; FSA a.6 04.GN.2931; FSA a.6 04.GN.2930; FSA a.6 04.GN.2929; FSA a.6 04.GN.2928; FSA a.6 04.GN.2927; FSA a.6 04.GN.2926; FSA a.6 04.GN.2925; FSA a.6 04.GN.3017; FSA a.6 04.GN.3005; FSA a.6 04.GN.3010; FSA a.6 04.GN.3014; FSA a.6 04.GN.3013; FSA a.6 04.GN.3015; FSA a.6 04.GN.3016; FSA a.6 04.GN.2944; FSA a.6 04.GN.2943; FSA a.6 04.GN.3009; FSA a.6 04.GN.3011; FSA a.6 04.GN.3012; FSA a.6 04.GN.3006; FSA a.6 04.GN.3008; FSA a.6 04.GN.2924; FSA a.6 04.GN.2923; FSA a.6 04.GN.2922; FSA a.6 04.GN.2914; FSA a.6 04.GN.2915; FSA a.6 04.GN.2918; FSA a.6 04.GN.2909; FSA a.6 04.GN.2913; FSA a.6 04.GN.2912; FSA a.6 04.GN.2910; FSA a.6 04.GN.2911; FSA a.6 04.GN.2902; FSA a.6 04.GN.2903; FSA a.6 04.GN.2908; FSA a.6 04.GN.2907; FSA a.6 04.GN.2143; FSA a.6 04.GN.2906; FSA a.6 04.GN.2905; FSA a.6 04.GN.2904; FSA a.6 04.GN.2999; FSA a.6 04.GN.3000; FSA a.6 04.GN.3001; FSA a.6 04.GN.2995; FSA a.6 04.GN.2994; FSA a.6 04.GN.2993; FSA a.6 04.GN.2996; FSA a.6 04.GN.2990; FSA a.6 04.GN.2997; FSA a.6 04.GN.2998; FSA a.6 04.GN.2992; FSA a.6 04.GN.2991; FSA a.6 04.GN.2988; FSA a.6 04.GN.2989; FSA a.6 04.GN.2987; FSA a.6 04.GN.2986; FSA a.6 04.GN.2985; FSA a.6 04.GN.2984; FSA a.6 04.GN.2983; FSA a.6 04.GN.2982; FSA a.6 04.GN.2958; FSA a.6 04.GN.2959; FSA a.6 04.GN.2960; FSA a.6 04.GN.2735; FSA a.6 04.GN.2738; FSA a.6 04.GN.2961; FSA a.6 04.GN.2962; FSA a.6 04.GN.2965; FSA a.6 04.GN.2966; FSA a.6 04.GN.2963; FSA a.6 04.GN.2964; FSA a.6 04.GN.2967; FSA a.6 04.GN.2968; FSA a.6 04.GN.2969; FSA a.6 04.GN.2980; FSA a.6 04.GN.2981; FSA a.6 04.GN.2979; FSA a.6 04.GN.2978; FSA a.6 04.GN.2977; FSA a.6 04.GN.2976; FSA a.6 04.GN.2975; FSA a.6 04.GN.2974; FSA a.6 04.GN.2973; FSA a.6 04.GN.2972; FSA a.6 04.GN.2971; FSA a.6 04.GN.2736; FSA a.6 04.GN.2970; FSA a.6 04.GN.2955; FSA a.6 04.GN.2956; FSA a.6 04.GN.2954; FSA a.6 04.GN.2953; FSA a.6 04.GN.2952; FSA a.6 04.GN.2957; FSA a.6 04.GN.2896; FSA a.6 04.GN.2899; FSA a.6 04.GN.2900; FSA a.6 04.GN.2894; FSA a.6 04.GN.2895; FSA a.6 04.GN.2901; FSA a.6 04.GN.2885; FSA a.6 04.GN.2884; FSA a.6 04.GN.2887; FSA a.6 04.GN.2888; FSA a.6 04.GN.2889; FSA a.6 04.GN.2890; FSA a.6 04.GN.2891; FSA a.6 04.GN.2893; FSA a.6 04.GN.2892; FSA a.6 04.GN.2886; FSA a.6 04.GN.2880; FSA a.6 04.GN.2882; FSA a.6 04.GN.2883; FSA a.6 04.GN.2879; FSA a.6 04.GN.2878; FSA a.6 04.GN.2881; FSA a.6 04.GN.2897; FSA a.6 04.GN.2898; FSA a.6 04.GN.0920; FSA a.6 04.GN.0924; FSA a.6 04.GN.0970; FSA a.6 04.GN.0972; FSA a.6 04.GN.0973; FSA a.6 04.GN.0974; FSA a.6 04.GN.0975; FSA a.6 04.GN.0976; FSA a.6 04.GN.0976; FSA a.6 04.GN.0977; FSA a.6 04.GN.1209; FSA a.6 04.GN.1211; FSA a.6 04.GN.1211a; FSA a.6 04.GN.1212; FSA a.6 04.GN.1213; FSA a.6 04.GN.1214; FSA a.6 04.GN.1223; FSA a.6 04.GN.1224; FSA a.6 04.GN.1225; FSA a.6 04.GN.1226; FSA a.6 04.GN.1227; FSA a.6 04.GN.1228; FSA a.6 04.GN.1229; FSA a.6 04.GN.1230; FSA a.6 04.GN.1301; FSA a.6 04.GN.1302; FSA a.6 04.GN.1303; FSA a.6 04.GN.1304; FSA a.6 04.GN.1305; FSA a.6 04.GN.1306; FSA a.6 04.GN.2108; FSA a.6 04.GN.2110; FSA a.6 04.GN.2109; FSA a.6 04.GN.2111; FSA a.6 04.GN.2112; FSA a.6 04.GN.2113; FSA a.6 04.GN.2114; FSA a.6 04.GN.2115; FSA a.6 04.GN.2118; FSA a.6 04.GN.2533; FSA a.6 04.GN.2712; FSA a.6 04.GN.2712a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2713; FSA a.6 04.GN.2714; FSA a.6 04.GN.2715; FSA a.6 04.GN.2716; FSA a.6 04.GN.2718; FSA a.6 04.GN.2719; FSA a.6 04.GN.2720; FSA a.6 04.GN.2721; FSA a.6 04.GN.2722; FSA a.6 04.GN.2723; FSA a.6 04.GN.2724; FSA a.6 04.GN.2725; FSA a.6 04.GN.2726; FSA a.6 04.GN.2727; FSA a.6 04.GN.2728; FSA a.6 04.GN.1205; FSA a.6 04.GN.1206; FSA a.6 04.GN.1207; FSA a.6 04.GN.1208; FSA a.6 04.GN.1210; FSA a.6 04.GN.1215; FSA a.6 04.GN.1216; FSA a.6 04.GN.1222; FSA a.6 04.GN.1231; FSA a.6 04.GN.1232; FSA a.6 04.GN.1233; FSA a.6 04.GN.1234; FSA a.6 04.GN.1235; FSA a.6 04.GN.1236; FSA a.6 04.GN.1237; FSA a.6 04.GN.1238; FSA a.6 04.GN.1239; FSA a.6 04.GN.1240; FSA a.6 04.GN.1241; FSA a.6 04.GN.1242; FSA a.6 04.GN.1243; FSA a.6 04.GN.1244; FSA a.6 04.GN.1245; FSA a.6 04.GN.1246; FSA a.6 04.GN.1247; FSA a.6 04.GN.1248; FSA a.6 04.GN.1249; FSA a.6 04.GN.1250; FSA a.6 04.GN.1251; FSA a.6 04.GN.1252; FSA a.6 04.GN.1253; FSA a.6 04.GN.1254; FSA a.6 04.GN.1255; FSA a.6 04.GN.1256; FSA a.6 04.GN.1257; FSA a.6 04.GN.1258; FSA a.6 04.GN.1259; FSA a.6 04.GN.1260; FSA a.6 04.GN.1261; FSA a.6 04.GN.1262; FSA a.6 04.GN.1263; FSA a.6 04.GN.1264; FSA a.6 04.GN.1265; FSA a.6 04.GN.1266; FSA a.6 04.GN.1267; FSA a.6 04.GN.1268; FSA a.6 04.GN.1269; FSA a.6 04.GN.1270; FSA a.6 04.GN.1271; FSA a.6 04.GN.1272; FSA a.6 04.GN.1273; FSA a.6 04.GN.1274; FSA a.6 04.GN.1275; FSA a.6 04.GN.1276; FSA a.6 04.GN.1277; FSA a.6 04.GN.1278; FSA a.6 04.GN.1279; FSA a.6 04.GN.1280; FSA a.6 04.GN.1281; FSA a.6 04.GN.1282; FSA a.6 04.GN.1283; FSA a.6 04.GN.1284; FSA a.6 04.GN.1285; FSA a.6 04.GN.1286; FSA a.6 04.GN.1287; FSA a.6 04.GN.1288; FSA a.6 04.GN.1289; FSA a.6 04.GN.1290; FSA a.6 04.GN.1291; FSA a.6 04.GN.1292; FSA a.6 04.GN.1293; FSA a.6 04.GN.1294; FSA a.6 04.GN.1295; FSA a.6 04.GN.1296; FSA a.6 04.GN.1297; FSA a.6 04.GN.1298; FSA a.6 04.GN.1299; FSA a.6 04.GN.1300; FSA a.6 04.GN.1478; FSA a.6 04.GN.1479; FSA a.6 04.GN.1480; FSA a.6 04.GN.1481; FSA a.6 04.GN.1482; FSA a.6 04.GN.1483; FSA a.6 04.GN.1484; FSA a.6 04.GN.1485; FSA a.6 04.GN.1486; FSA a.6 04.GN.1487; FSA a.6 04.GN.1488; FSA a.6 04.GN.1489."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Persian Architecture and Landscapes (Cyanotypes File 10)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 10

FSA A.6 04.CY.10

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

Ancient Near Eastern Art  Search this

Art of the Islamic World  Search this

Archaeology  Search this

Architecture  Search this

Decoration and ornament  Search this

Inscriptions  Search this

Natural landscapes  Search this

Relief (Sculpture)  Search this

Religious buildings  Search this

Stucco  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.10

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Archival Repository:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc33967d00f-1bbe-44a6-ae38-84e99fa7c4ce

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Names:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Collection Creator:

Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948  Search this

Extent:

2 Volumes

1 Volume (338 cyanotype prints, b&w, 16 cm. x 21.7 cm.)

Type:

Archival materials

Volumes

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Place:

Asia

Iran

Iraq

Baghdad (Iraq)

Fīrūzābād (Iran)

Hamadān (Iran)

Iṣfahān (Iran)

Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran)

Pasargadae (Extinct city)

Qum (Iran)

Ray (Iran)

Shīrāz (Iran)

Sīstān va Balūchistān (Iran)

Tehran (Iran)

Date:

1904-1934

Scope and Contents:

The abbreviations used in captions of published photos are:

AHI--Archaeological History of Iran, Herzfeld

Browne-- Vol. of Oriental Studies, Presented to Edward G. Browne...on his 60th Birthday, Cambridge, 1922. "Die Gumbadh-i-'Alawiyyān und die Baukunst der Ilkhane in Iran," Herzfeld

SA-I--Ars Islamica, Vol.IX (1942). "Damascus, Studies in Architecture. The Mukarnas Dome. The Madrasa," Herzfeld

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 11", which was arranged by Ernst Herzfeld, provides 338 photographic prints which relate to field study of various architectural buildings and archaeological remains at Baghdad (Iraq), Kufa (Iraq), Hamadan (Iran), Sunghur (Iran), Asadabad (Iran), Alamut (Iran), Rayy (Iran), Tehran (Iran), Varamin (Iran), Qum (Iran), Qara Tepe (Iran), Isfahan (Iran), Linjan District (Iran), Pasargadae (Iran), Naqsh-i Rustam (Iran), Band-i Amir (Iran), Firuzabad (Iran), Shiraz (Iran), Island of Kharg (Iran), Na'in (Iran), Kerman (Iran), Sistan (Iran), and Zahedan (Iran).

- Additional information from Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive reads, "The prints are from three sources: (1) those from glass negatives; (2) those from cut film; and (3) those for which there are no negatives. The Archive contains Herzfeld's glass negatives, numbered from 1 to 3850. Of most of these he had blueprints made which he had arranged in 16 binders by general categories, irrespective of the number on the negative. These formed the nucleus for the preparation of the Photo Files. The 16 binders of blueprints have been replaced by Photo Files, Nos. 1-16. The prints in each File are arranged in the same order as the blueprints; and the number of the negative is enclosed in parentheses. Following a brief identification, is a reference to the place where the print has been published, if that is the case and such publication has been located."

- "Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 11" is composed of 338 cyanotype prints (blueprints), made from the following glass plates, "FSA a.6 04.GN.1196; FSA a.6 04.GN.2707; FSA a.6 04.GN.2702; FSA a.6 04.GN.2701; FSA a.6 04.GN.2708; FSA a.6 04.GN.2703; FSA a.6 04.GN.2709; FSA a.6 04.GN.2700; FSA a.6 04.GN.2704; FSA a.6 04.GN.2710; FSA a.6 04.GN.2704a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2705; FSA a.6 04.GN.2706; FSA a.6 04.GN.1193; FSA a.6 04.GN.1194; FSA a.6 04.GN.1171; FSA a.6 04.GN.0177; FSA a.6 04.GN.2699; FSA a.6 04.GN.2697; FSA a.6 04.GN.2695; FSA a.6 04.GN.2698; FSA a.6 04.GN.2731; FSA a.6 04.GN.2733; FSA a.6 04.GN.2732; FSA a.6 04.GN.2696; FSA a.6 04.GN.2694; FSA a.6 04.GN.2734; FSA a.6 04.GN.2730; FSA a.6 04.GN.1940; FSA a.6 04.GN.1941; FSA a.6 04.GN.1942; FSA a.6 04.GN.1943; FSA a.6 04.GN.1944; FSA a.6 04.GN.1945; FSA a.6 04.GN.1947; FSA a.6 04.GN.1946; FSA a.6 04.GN.1948; FSA a.6 04.GN.1950; FSA a.6 04.GN.1949; FSA a.6 04.GN.1951; FSA a.6 04.GN.1952; FSA a.6 04.GN.1953; FSA a.6 04.GN.1954; FSA a.6 04.GN.1955; FSA a.6 04.GN.1956; FSA a.6 04.GN.0927; FSA a.6 04.GN.1957; FSA a.6 04.GN.2530; FSA a.6 04.GN.2531; FSA a.6 04.GN.2532; FSA a.6 04.GN.2534; FSA a.6 04.GN.2535; FSA a.6 04.GN.2536; FSA a.6 04.GN.2537; FSA a.6 04.GN.2538; FSA a.6 04.GN.2539; FSA a.6 04.GN.0931; FSA a.6 04.GN.0921; FSA a.6 04.GN.0925; FSA a.6 04.GN.0922; FSA a.6 04.GN.0930; FSA a.6 04.GN.0923; FSA a.6 04.GN.2500; FSA a.6 04.GN.2498; FSA a.6 04.GN.2499; FSA a.6 04.GN.2501; FSA a.6 04.GN.1920; FSA a.6 04.GN.1919; FSA a.6 04.GN.2502; FSA a.6 04.GN.1918; FSA a.6 04.GN.1917; FSA a.6 04.GN.1916; FSA a.6 04.GN.1922; FSA a.6 04.GN.1923; FSA a.6 04.GN.1921; FSA a.6 04.GN.0182; FSA a.6 04.GN.0180; FSA a.6 04.GN.2503; FSA a.6 04.GN.1924; FSA a.6 04.GN.1925; FSA a.6 04.GN.0174; FSA a.6 04.GN.1926; FSA a.6 04.GN.1927; FSA a.6 04.GN.2717; FSA a.6 04.GN.2497; FSA a.6 04.GN.1137; FSA a.6 04.GN.1136; FSA a.6 04.GN.1135; FSA a.6 04.GN.0164; FSA a.6 04.GN.0978; FSA a.6 04.GN.0979; FSA a.6 04.GN.0971; FSA a.6 04.GN.1928; FSA a.6 04.GN.1929; FSA a.6 04.GN.1930; FSA a.6 04.GN.1931; FSA a.6 04.GN.2504; FSA a.6 04.GN.2506; FSA a.6 04.GN.2505; FSA a.6 04.GN.2515; FSA a.6 04.GN.2508; FSA a.6 04.GN.1932; FSA a.6 04.GN.2509; FSA a.6 04.GN.2510; FSA a.6 04.GN.1934; FSA a.6 04.GN.0175; FSA a.6 04.GN.1069; FSA a.6 04.GN.1933; FSA a.6 04.GN.0185; FSA a.6 04.GN.2512; FSA a.6 04.GN.2513; FSA a.6 04.GN.2511; FSA a.6 04.GN.2514; FSA a.6 04.GN.2518; FSA a.6 04.GN.2517; FSA a.6 04.GN.1935; FSA a.6 04.GN.2507; FSA a.6 04.GN.2516; FSA a.6 04.GN.2519; FSA a.6 04.GN.1936; FSA a.6 04.GN.0181; FSA a.6 04.GN.1937; FSA a.6 04.GN.2520; FSA a.6 04.GN.2521; FSA a.6 04.GN.1938; FSA a.6 04.GN.1939; FSA a.6 04.GN.2117; FSA a.6 04.GN.2706a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2522; FSA a.6 04.GN.2524; FSA a.6 04.GN.2523; FSA a.6 04.GN.2525; FSA a.6 04.GN.2527; FSA a.6 04.GN.2528; FSA a.6 04.GN.2526; FSA a.6 04.GN.2529; FSA a.6 04.GN.2540; FSA a.6 04.GN.2541; FSA a.6 04.GN.2555; FSA a.6 04.GN.2543; FSA a.6 04.GN.2542; FSA a.6 04.GN.2546; FSA a.6 04.GN.2545; FSA a.6 04.GN.2547; FSA a.6 04.GN.2544; FSA a.6 04.GN.2548; FSA a.6 04.GN.2549; FSA a.6 04.GN.2550; FSA a.6 04.GN.2554; FSA a.6 04.GN.2553; FSA a.6 04.GN.2551; FSA a.6 04.GN.2552; FSA a.6 04.GN.0945; FSA a.6 04.GN.0956; FSA a.6 04.GN.1960; FSA a.6 04.GN.1958; FSA a.6 04.GN.1961; FSA a.6 04.GN.1959; FSA a.6 04.GN.1964; FSA a.6 04.GN.1962; FSA a.6 04.GN.1967; FSA a.6 04.GN.1963; FSA a.6 04.GN.1966; FSA a.6 04.GN.1969; FSA a.6 04.GN.1970; FSA a.6 04.GN.1965; FSA a.6 04.GN.1968; FSA a.6 04.GN.2116; FSA a.6 04.GN.2556; FSA a.6 04.GN.2557; FSA a.6 04.GN.2558; FSA a.6 04.GN.2559; FSA a.6 04.GN.2560; FSA a.6 04.GN.2561; FSA a.6 04.GN.2562; FSA a.6 04.GN.2563; FSA a.6 04.GN.2564; FSA a.6 04.GN.2565; FSA a.6 04.GN.2566; FSA a.6 04.GN.2567; FSA a.6 04.GN.2569; FSA a.6 04.GN.2568; FSA a.6 04.GN.2570; FSA a.6 04.GN.2571; FSA a.6 04.GN.2573; FSA a.6 04.GN.2572; FSA a.6 04.GN.2576; FSA a.6 04.GN.2575; FSA a.6 04.GN.2574; FSA a.6 04.GN.2541a; FSA a.6 04.GN.0955; FSA a.6 04.GN.2577; FSA a.6 04.GN.2578; FSA a.6 04.GN.0946; FSA a.6 04.GN.1972; FSA a.6 04.GN.2579; FSA a.6 04.GN.2580; FSA a.6 04.GN.0953; FSA a.6 04.GN.1971; FSA a.6 04.GN.2581; FSA a.6 04.GN.2582; FSA a.6 04.GN.2583; FSA a.6 04.GN.2585; FSA a.6 04.GN.2584; FSA a.6 04.GN.2586; FSA a.6 04.GN.2590; FSA a.6 04.GN.2591; FSA a.6 04.GN.2588; FSA a.6 04.GN.2587; FSA a.6 04.GN.2589; FSA a.6 04.GN.2593; FSA a.6 04.GN.2592; FSA a.6 04.GN.2594; FSA a.6 04.GN.2595; FSA a.6 04.GN.2500; FSA a.6 04.GN.0952; FSA a.6 04.GN.2596; FSA a.6 04.GN.2597; FSA a.6 04.GN.0951; FSA a.6 04.GN.2599; FSA a.6 04.GN.2598; FSA a.6 04.GN.2600; FSA a.6 04.GN.2601; FSA a.6 04.GN.2602; FSA a.6 04.GN.2603; FSA a.6 04.GN.2604; FSA a.6 04.GN.2605; FSA a.6 04.GN.2606; FSA a.6 04.GN.2607; FSA a.6 04.GN.2608; FSA a.6 04.GN.2609; FSA a.6 04.GN.2610; FSA a.6 04.GN.2611; FSA a.6 04.GN.2612; FSA a.6 04.GN.2613; FSA a.6 04.GN.2614; FSA a.6 04.GN.2616; FSA a.6 04.GN.2618; FSA a.6 04.GN.2620; FSA a.6 04.GN.2617; FSA a.6 04.GN.2619; FSA a.6 04.GN.2621; FSA a.6 04.GN.2622; FSA a.6 04.GN.2623; FSA a.6 04.GN.2624; FSA a.6 04.GN.2626; FSA a.6 04.GN.2629; FSA a.6 04.GN.2627a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2628; FSA a.6 04.GN.2627; FSA a.6 04.GN.2631; FSA a.6 04.GN.2630; FSA a.6 04.GN.2631a; FSA a.6 04.GN.2615; FSA a.6 04.GN.2632; FSA a.6 04.GN.2633; FSA a.6 04.GN.2637; FSA a.6 04.GN.2638; FSA a.6 04.GN.2635; FSA a.6 04.GN.2636; FSA a.6 04.GN.2634; FSA a.6 04.GN.2744; FSA a.6 04.GN.2646; FSA a.6 04.GN.2647; FSA a.6 04.GN.2648; FSA a.6 04.GN.2640; FSA a.6 04.GN.2639; FSA a.6 04.GN.2641; FSA a.6 04.GN.2642; FSA a.6 04.GN.2645; FSA a.6 04.GN.2643; FSA a.6 04.GN.2644; FSA a.6 04.GN.1973; FSA a.6 04.GN.1974; FSA a.6 04.GN.2649; FSA a.6 04.GN.1975; FSA a.6 04.GN.2656; FSA a.6 04.GN.2653; FSA a.6 04.GN.2654; FSA a.6 04.GN.2655; FSA a.6 04.GN.2651; FSA a.6 04.GN.2650; FSA a.6 04.GN.2652; FSA a.6 04.GN.2711; FSA a.6 04.GN.1976; FSA a.6 04.GN.2657; FSA a.6 04.GN.2658; FSA a.6 04.GN.2660; FSA a.6 04.GN.2659; FSA a.6 04.GN.1063; FSA a.6 04.GN.1067; FSA a.6 04.GN.0948; FSA a.6 04.GN.1064; FSA a.6 04.GN.1065; FSA a.6 04.GN.0184; FSA a.6 04.GN.0950; FSA a.6 04.GN.0183; FSA a.6 04.GN.0947; FSA a.6 04.GN.1023; FSA a.6 04.GN.1073; FSA a.6 04.GN.1017; FSA a.6 04.GN.1020; FSA a.6 04.GN.1015; FSA a.6 04.GN.1025; FSA a.6 04.GN.1072; FSA a.6 04.GN.1071; FSA a.6 04.GN.1074; FSA a.6 04.GN.1024; FSA a.6 04.GN.0954; FSA a.6 04.GN.0176; FSA a.6 04.GN.1070; FSA a.6 04.GN.1068; FSA a.6 04.GN.1019; FSA a.6 04.GN.1152; FSA a.6 04.GN.1018; FSA a.6 04.GN.1021; FSA a.6 04.GN.1016; FSA a.6 04.GN.2868; FSA a.6 04.GN.2863; FSA a.6 04.GN.2870; FSA a.6 04.GN.2871; FSA a.6 04.GN.2872; FSA a.6 04.GN.2873; FSA a.6 04.GN.2874; FSA a.6 04.GN.2875; FSA a.6 04.GN.2876; FSA a.6 04.GN.2877; FSA a.6 04.GN.2860; FSA a.6 04.GN.2861; FSA a.6 04.GN.2862; FSA a.6 04.GN.2863; FSA a.6 04.GN.2864; FSA a.6 04.GN.2865; FSA a.6 04.GN.2866; FSA a.6 04.GN.2867."

Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 4: Photographic Files; Persian Architecture (Cyanotypes File 11)

Arrangement:

- Of most of his 3,890 glass negatives, Herzfeld had blueprints made which he arranged in 16 binders irrespective of the number on the negative. In addition to the 16 blueprint binders, he assembled 5 albums including two from the Samarra series labelled "Paläste und Moscheen-I and -II." The remainder of the photographs, from glass negatives and from cut films, sometimes identified by Herzfeld, were printed en masse for study purpose (labelled by Upton as duplicate prints) and which are, for the most part, unpublished. For his own research, Herzfeld also collected prints from many sources. Of those there are no negatives. Finally, in early 1970s, Joseph Upton reorganized the whole Herzfeld collection of photographic prints into 42 photographic files, assembling 14 additional files in excess of the 21 existing files arranged by Herzfeld himself. The eight remaining files, File 35 to File 42, are made of duplicate prints provided by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Local Numbers:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers; Cyanotypes File 11

FSA A.6 04.CY.11

General:

- Title is provided by Xavier Courouble, FSg Archives cataloger, based on Joseph Upton's Catalogue of the Herzfeld Archive.

Collection Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Topic:

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Genre/Form:

Cyanotypes

Photographic prints

Collection Citation:

Ernst Herzfeld Papers. FSA.A.06. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Gift of Ernst Herzfeld, 1946

Identifier:

FSA.A.06, Subseries 4.11

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